Hitachi released the energy-efficient terabyte hard drive





Hitachi released a terabyte hard drive of the new generation. He was named Deskstar 7K1000.B and marked the beginning of a new era in the development of technologies - Tera Era. This was reported in a press release.

The main feature of the new hard drive is reduced power consumption. According to the manufacturer, it is 43 percent less than that of currently manufactured HDDs terabyte.

Made Deskstar 7K1000.B 3, 5-inch form factor and runs at 7200 rpm. The density of data storage hard disk is 375 gigabytes per platter. According to the manufacturer the device operating time between failures is 1, 2 million hours. Buffer capacity is 32 megabytes.

Optsialno Deskstar 7K1000.B hard drive can be equipped with data encryption at the hardware level Bulk Data Encryption (BDE). In the sale of hard disk will go to the end of the month.

Earlier terabyte hard drive with low power consumption has released a South Korean Samsung. One of his plate accommodates 334 gigabyte hard drive speed - 5400 rpm.

Recall that, Hitachi was the first to begin mass production of terabyte hard drives. The first disc was released a container company in early 2007.