One-terabyte hard drive for your e-books and multimedia? Cost: $400 retail
Hitachi will sell the Deskstar 7K1000 for about $400 retail within the next few months. A Seagate rival is also on the way. Oh, the wonders of terabytes! The U.S. Library of Congress is proud to hold more than 40 terabytes of Web-related data. Even the capacity to house 1/40 or so of that amount is awe-inspiring. And remember, what happens on desktops will eventually happen on handhelds.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
While I’m obviously happy about the advent of terabyte-size hard drives, I can’t help but think that drives with moving parts are not really the right way to go for handhelds. Something along the lines of this seems like a better approach. Sure, 32 gigs is peanuts compared to a terabyte, but it’s more than enough for most portable usages. And you could always refresh it from your 1TB multimedia station at home.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Excellent point, Dan. While rugged mechanical drives would be great for handhelds, rugged solid state ones would be better. And the 32G mentioned in the link should certainly be adequate for all but fastest speed readers
Thanks. David
January 6th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
That Sandisk thingy is very nice and shiny. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. Unfortunately at an estimated 700 US$ it won’t be the basis for the next generation of PMPs for developing nations.
January 8th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
The $400 price point is what’s really amazing about that announcement.