Hitachi’s Second Generation 1TB HDD Unveiled

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Hitachi has announced the second generation of its 1TB Deskstar hard drive. The drive is called the Deskstar 7K1000.B and will ship worldwide in July at undisclosed pricing. Hitachi claims the new drive is the most energy efficient 7200 rpm 1TB hard drive in the world.

The drive uses three platters and improves idle power consumption up to 43% over the first generation 1TB drive from Hitachi. The drive also supports bulk data encryption (BDE) as an optional feature for users. The drive delivers 375Gb of storage per platter. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:21:01 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Announces 1TB EcoGreen HDD

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Samsung announced today a new eco hard drive with lots of storage capacity. The Samsung F1 EcoGreen hard drive has 1TB of storage space and provides a 15% power savings compared to other low-power 1TB drives.

The EcoGreen drive spins at 5400 RMP and uses the 3Gbps SATA interface and a 32MB buffer. The drive uses platters that each holds 334GB to reduce the number of parts required to operate the drive and boost overall performance. Samsung says the drive will be available in Q2 2008 for $199. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 1TB External Hard Drive Revie

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ThinkComputers published a Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 1TB External Hard Drive Review.

Quote from the review: "Terabyte hard drives are becoming more popular with the need for more hard drive space. If you're looking to expand your hard drive capacity I think the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 1TB External Hard Drive would be great for you. This drive includes USB and Dual FireWire interfaces with available capacities of 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB. Read more

Posted on Tue, 13 May 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Time Capsule 1TB Review

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The test lab at our review partner Digital Reviews tested the Apple Time Capsule with 1TB storage. Apple announced the easy to use backup solution in January of this year.

Quote from the review: "Apple’s Time Capsule combines a gigantic 1TB hard drive with a speedy wireless router that dishes out legacy B and G Wi-Fi along with the new N standard. It’s an overall solid package that delivers on its promise of easy-to-use centralized storage for a home network, and its wireless performance is very good as well. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus M70 1TB Blu-ray full HD Notebook

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Asus announces the new power-house AV notebook M70 with 1TB HDD and Blu-ray drive. Hitachi GST already touted the Asus M70 as the word's first 1TB notebook back in January.

Features of the Asus M70 include 17 inch WUXGA screen (1920x1200px), Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 ~T7700/T8100/T8300/T9300 CPU options, ATI Mobile Radeon HD3650 with 1G VRAM or ATI Mobile Radeon HD3470 with 256MB VRAM graphics, up to 4GB RAM, up to 2x500GB HDD (1TB) and built-in 1.3M pixel swivel webcam. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Launches 1TB HDD with SAS interface

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Seagate announced today that it is now offering the world’s first 1TB hard drive with a SAS interface. The drive is the enterprise class Barracuda ES.2 with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Seagate says the SAS interface can boost performance by 135% compared to SATA drives.

"The explosion of content in enterprise environments is driving the need for faster data access and bandwidth that Seagate's 1TB Barracuda ES.2 drives can deliver with a SAS interface," said Sherman Black, Seagate senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. "SAS dual-port capability with redundancy, improved performance and data integrity make this drive the perfect low-cost/GB enterprise-ready drive for our customers." Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:33:53 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

1TB Hard Drive Comparison

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TheTechLounge compares three 1TB Hard Drives. The three 1TB HDDs put to the test are: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000, Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST3100340AS) and the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (ST31000340NS).

Quote from the review: "Barriers are meant to be broken. As capacities have increased and prices fallen, each company wants those bragging rights of having the "biggest," or at least the fastest. Read more

Posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

WD Caviar RE2 GreenPower 1TB HDD Review

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Hothardware published a review of the Western Digital Caviar and RE.2 GreenPower 1TB hard drive.

Quote from the review: "In addition to their large capacities, these drives offer a number of proprietary features designed to lower their power consumption and acoustic profiles, like IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, IntelliPark, and in the RE.2's case RAFF (Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward). Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

World's first 1TB Notebook Asus M70

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Today Hitachi GST announced that ASUS has integrated Hitachi’s Travelstar 5K500 hard drive into its new M50 and M70 notebook PCs.

The Asus M70 delivers up to 1TB of storage capacity in a two-drive configuration.
One TB of storage capacity translates to 1,000 hours of video, or more than 350 feature length movies or 250,000 four-minute songs. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jan 2008 02:27:33 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

1TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition Review

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Our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the high capacity 1TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition storage solution. The WD backup system scored an Editor's Choice Award.

Quote from the review: "Western Digital (WD) has revamped its popular My Book line of external backup drives with a new look and new software, and new interface options. Read more

Posted on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Review Round-up: 1TB Seagate HDD, V-Tech Kidizoom, Razer Diamondback

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Here is our weekly review round-up, highlighting the products we tested last week.

If your videos and photo collection does not fit on your hard-drive anymore take a look at the new Seagate 1TB hard-drive we tested last week.

We also tested a cool creative toy for your kids. The VTech Kidizoom Camera is very durable and great fun for kids to play with. Read more

Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB Internal HDD Review

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Today we are looking at the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB internal HDD. This is Seagate’s first 1TB drive and is a direct competitor to the Hitachi 1TB drive we reviewed before.

The Seagate drive performs well and has great storage capacity. The only potential problem with the drive is that it is expensive. Read more

Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:06:06 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Panasonic DMR-BW900 1TB Blu-ray Disc Recorder

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Panasonic introduces three new Blu-ray disc recorders with up to 1TB of hard-drive space.

The Panasonic DMR-BW900 comes with a 1TB capacity, the DMR-BW800 has 500GB and the DMR-BW700 features 250GB of storage.
In the highest HD video quality (MP2, 24Mbps) the DRM-BW900 can store 90 hours. Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

TrekStor DataStation duo 1TB Review

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Our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the TrekStor DataStation duo with 1TB configuration.

Quote from the review: "TrekStor, a respected hard drive and MP3 player manufacturer from southwest Germany, recently announced their DataStation duo w.u. 1 terabyte USB 2.0 hard drive. Read more

Posted on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Another Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB HDD Review

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Tech Report published a review of the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard-disc. Shop for the 1TB HDD here

Quote from the HDD review: "Being first to the terabyte mark gives Hitachi bragging rights, and more importantly, the ability to offer single-drive storage capacity 33% greater than that of its competitors. Hitachi isn't banking on capacity alone, though. The 7K1000 is also outfitted with a whopping 32MB of cache—double what you get with other 3.5" hard drives. Couple that extra cache with 200GB platters that have the highest areal density of any drive on the market, and the 7K1000's performance could impress as much as its capacity. Read more

Posted on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Sharp DV-ACW80 Digital Recorder with 1TB HDD

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Sharp announced today 5 new digital Hi-Vision recorder in Japan including the DV-ACW80 with 1TB storage.

Sharp improved their line-up of digital recorder with these new devices. The top model DV-ACW80 has the world's fastest start-up time of 0.8s along with the smaller DV-ACW75 and DV-ACW72.

Other features include IrSS (high speed infra-red), improved EPG, 10bit/148.5MHz image DAC and compact form factor with measurements of 434×343×68mm. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate launches 1TB HDDs Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2

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Seagate introduced two 1TB hard drives today. The Barracuda ES.2 1TB HDD is aimed at networked and tiered storage solutions, reference/compliance storage, disc-to-disc backup and restore, archiving solutions, rich media content storage and collaboration.

The 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is aimed at desktop and gaming computers.

The perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard drives Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 deliver 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, caches up to 32MB and Seagate's five-year limited warranty. Seagate uses four discs to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption in the new 1TB drives. Read more

Posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:42:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000 1TB 3.5 inch HDD Review

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Today we are looking at the largest capacity hard disk drive around, the 1TB Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000 HDD. This drive not only has massive storage capacity, but it bests the Western digital 10k RPM Raptor in several benchmarks.

If you are a hard care PC gamer looking for more space for your games, a digital music fan or a lover of digital video the Hitachi 7K1000 HDD is the drive you want in your PC. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 May 2007 16:57:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro ''Quad Interface'' 1TB External Drive

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Other World Computing (OWC) announces the Mercury Elite-AL Pro "Quad Interface" 1TB External Drive Solution.

OWC uses the high-speed Oxford 924 chipset combined with the fastest drive mechanisms available to give you 80MB/s via FireWire and up to 150MB/s via eSATA.

The drive solution offers connectivity options for FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 May 2007 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Next Gen Storage Format Squeezes 1TB onto a DVD Size Disc

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More, more, more is the battle cry for storage manufacturers. A company called Mempile has a new storage technology that is set to make Blu-ray and HD DVD look positively measly when it comes to storage capacity.

The new technology, dubbed TeraDisc, can store up to 1TB of content on a single platter. It records and reads over 100 virtual layers on one disc and was recently demoed in Japan. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Sharp Aquos DV-ACW60 1TB HD Recorder

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I feel so small with my 80GB digital video recorder. Terra Byte HD recorder are set to become the standard size in Japan. Sharp has just released the Aquos DV-ACW60 HD digital recorder with a 1TB HDD.

The Sharp DV-ACW60 has a Terrestrial BS 110 degree CS digital tuner supporting recording of 2 shows at the same time. Sharp also claims the fastest startup time with 0.8 seconds for the DV-ACW60.
Another new feature in a digital recorder is a high-speed IrDA interface. You can upload photos from a mobile phone to the recorder via infra-red to store it or view it on your TV. Read more

Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr