Are you hesitant to try new games because your drive has no more space? Do you stop yourself from taking large digital videos because of your PC’s limited storage capacity? Now you can go beyond those limits, with Dell and Alienware new terabyte PCs.

Starting today, Dell and Alienware customers purchasing select XPSTM , AuroraTM and Area 51 gaming desktop computers can super-size their storage space by adding the world’s first consumer one terabyte ( TB ) hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

Try to imagine what can terabyte hard drive store for you.

The hard drive of terabyte capacity provides enough space to store an incredible amount of data such as a million photos, a million minutes of music or 16 days of DVD quality video.

Dell’s 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.”

According to official Hitachi specifications, the new drive is a Serial ATA 3Gbps model with a 7200 RPM spindle rate. The drive uses perpendicular recording and has five platters. Read time comes in at 8.5 milliseconds and write times at 9.2 milliseconds. It has a 32MB cache and an 8.7 millisecond average seek time.

Along with the new 1TB drive, Dell is launching it’s first ever “Video Time Capsule”. The company invites its own and Alienware’s customer to participate by submitting videos messages to love ones or to share their digital videos for generations to come at www.studiodell.com. These videos will be stored on the new ITB drives from Hitachi at Dell headquarters for 50 years.

This advancement in hard drives will definitely offer us great storage capacity. However, previous studies have found that with data densities this high, data integrity may be compromised. It’s not worth storing at all when storage integrity is low.

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Entry was posted on Saturday, March 17th, 2007 at 1:59 am under Storage, Technology.

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