Hitachi ships world's first 4TB drives

Hitachi has started shipping and selling their new 4TB Deskstar 5K hard disk drive, making it the first in the world to ship drives this big. The new disk sports a speed of 5,900RPM, a 6Gbps SATA 3 interface, and the same 32MB of cache as its 2 and 3TB siblings.

The list price is around $345. More info is available on Hitachi's site http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-d...eskstar-5k4000

In other disk news, a recent advance in platter data density means we will soon start seeing up to 6TB of disk space per platter. Its possible to get 5 platters into a 3.5" drive, which means that by this time next year we may be seeing 30TB single drives!

Thanks for that information Luke

Looks like a really nice drive and fast too, how long do you think it will take for them to drop in price. There is no way you could conceive backing it up on to floppies

floppies LOL!! there's a blast from the past. I wouldn't count on this one going down in price for a while as it was just released and is the only one of its kind available, but I actually think that's a pretty good price as most 1TB disks are about $99 these days, so you get 4x for only 3.5x the price!

Oh, I want one! or two!

I have a 1TB and a 120gb ssd, not sure what to do with all the space lol

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I have a 1TB and a 120gb ssd, not sure what to do with all the space lol

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obviously, you don't do video work LOL!!! Its crazy how much disk space you need to do good quality rendering of videos.

Wow can you imagine 30tb of gay porn, you could lock yourself away for years lol. Plus hard ones are far better than floppies.........!!!

Nice!

Planning my server re-build for the new year. I think these could really help!