1-Terabyte-Drive PCs from Dell--Can't get any better
By agentneo
@agentneo (83)
India
April 12, 2007 8:18am CST
Dell is the first computer system supplier to ship 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) hard drives targeted at users needing to store large amounts of digital media. The higher capacity is particularly needed for storing video content, such as high-definition video. This will affect consumers first but then business, particularly media-related businesses and applications. It is a reversal of normal practice where business received higher-capacity disk drives first.
Dell vice president, Neil Hand said: "This type of capability used to be available only to the largest corporations. With the spectacular advancement in hard drives and the engineering in our systems, we're now able to bring it to consumers."
The first Dell PCs to use the drives will be its own Alienware-branded gaming PCs. XPS systems will then follow suit. A check on the US Alienware site shows four 1TB drives can be shipped. The drives are not mentioned on the UK site yet.
2 responses
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 07
This was inevitable with the increasing demand for storage space, and with the aid of a couple of external USB2 Seagate drives I currently have about 0.7 Tb storage.
This is not likely to be a single hard drive but an array of drives totalling a terabyte, which is a tremendous size by today's standards. Buffalo Terastations have been offering 1.6 Tb of space on a NAS drive for a while, although no company has offered this amount internally before.
@ankit2584 (109)
• India
12 Apr 07
WOW ! 1TB is really too big. but i am sure in future it will be like 1GB. Disk space no matter however big always fell short when it comes to storing digital data. People store so much of music and videos that 1TB is easily consumed. But i think its a great example of advancement in computer technology. Dont You?
