Hitachi executives said the 1000GB desktop hard drive is expected to be listed this year

According to the overseas media reports, said Hitachi global storage technology product strategy and marketing senior vice president Bill Healy, capacity of desktop hard disk 1000GB years is likely to be listed. It is understood that these hard disk diameter of 3.5 inches, can be used for personal computers and home server.

However, this is not a major news for some hard disk manufacturers. At present, Hitachi has started selling 500GB capacity hard drive products, competitors of Seagate and 750GB hard disk products already in April this year to the desktop manufacturers supply. At the same time, Seagate is also sold by two 500GB hard disk composed of household storage devices, capacity up to 1000GB. Healy said that the hard disk density doubled every two years, and during this period of steady growth; therefore, 1000GB hard disk will appear.

In fact, very few people really need 1000GB's large storage capacity, but it sounds very cool, and people are constantly proven to be able to come up with ways to improve the disk capacity. In addition, high-definition video content is expected to greatly enhance the people's capacity requirements.

At the same time, the large capacity hard disk will also work with television and personal video recorder integration, Hitachi has been in Japan and other markets with hard disk set. Although the large capacity of the hard disk listing is very expensive, the price will soon fall. Healy said that in the purchase of hard drives, computer manufacturers on average pay about 30 cents per GB capacity, while the retail price per GB capacity of about 50 cents.

In September 13th this year, the hard disk will usher in 50 birthday, Hitachi and other hard disk manufacturers will be held at the computer history museum in celebration. For the hard disk, this is crazy for half a century. IBM developed by the world's first disk - RAMAC weight of 1 tons, capacity of only 5MB. Now, people can easily take the capacity of more than 5MB 1 inch hard disk in hand. Healy said, 20 years later, we are likely to see the capacity of 1000GB 1 inch hard drive."