Monday, December 12th 2011
Hitachi Announces the 4 TB Deskstar HDD and 4 TB Touro Desk External Drive
Hitachi Global Storage System has now taken the veil off not one but two 4 TB storage solutions, the Deskstar 5K4000 3.5-inch hard drive which we mentioned on Friday, and a 4 TB Touro Desk external drive. The 4 TB Deskstar HDD features a 3.5-inch form factor, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, 32 MB of buffer, it utilizes the CoolSpin technology (~ 5900 RPM) and is currently shipping in limited quantities in both OEM and retail versions. The retail package, which includes the drive, mounting screws, and install instructions, costs $399.99.
The 4 TB Touro Desk is equipped with one Deskstar 5K4000, has a black, textured body, a USB 3.0 interface, and offers 3 GB of cloud storage for free from HitachiBackup.com. This drive will ship in January and will cost $419.99.
The 4 TB Touro Desk is equipped with one Deskstar 5K4000, has a black, textured body, a USB 3.0 interface, and offers 3 GB of cloud storage for free from HitachiBackup.com. This drive will ship in January and will cost $419.99.
11 Comments on Hitachi Announces the 4 TB Deskstar HDD and 4 TB Touro Desk External Drive
top of the line hdds have always been in that price range...even before the current situation.
taking the current situation into account makes them really cheap actually...100 bucks per GB seems fine...
but, as i said, hdds that introduced higher-than-previously-available capacities have been in that price region even before the thailand incident... so nothing has changed here... the only difference is that before the incident, new hdds took the spot of the largest drives and pushed prices down for the smaller ones... (when 3TB drives were new, they had the same price tag)...
it just like with all top of the line hardware...the newest and fastest cpu or gpu always involves a price premium just because it's the newest and fastest...
why should it be any different in storage?
ps: i'm in germany and the 7200 rpm variant of that drive costs €499... actually you guys in the uk have to pay the the lowest prices in europe (after poland)...to stay with that example: that 4TB drive with 7200rpm costs 227 - 244 € (including 20% vat) in uk...
edit: this is about 194 - 208 gbp (yes, i had the wrong currency written there previously...)
so don't tell ME that hdds are expensive... ;) i obviously do... :)