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Spotlight: Hitachi Terabyte Deskstar & CinemaStar Hard Drives
The Hitachi booth showed off their brand new terabyte drives. That's right 1000 GBs! Their new Deskstar 7K1000 and CinemaStar drives were presented in all their disemboweled glory. Interestingly enough, they still look like every other hard drive they have produced, but with 1 TB of space. The new drives will be produced with either SATA II 3.0 Gb/s interfaces or the older PATA. The drives feature a 5 platter design with 10 recording heads using a 32 MB cache. The price for these drives which should be available in the first quarter of 2007 will be at $399. The CinemaStar line of drives will be optimized for quieter running as well as improved data transfer rates optimized for DVR functionality. Although not targeted for purchase by end users, these drives will find their way into Tivo's and other media centric set-top boxes. With the increase in High Definition content, PVR's will require much higher capacity to satisfy your content needs. These should be available in the second quarter of 2007. Besides, you can never have too much storage.    Along the same lines as the CinemaStar, Hitachi was also showing off their new Audio-Visual Storage Manager™ (AVSM™) software. Again, not a consumer product, but one aimed at the PVR manufacturers. It's main purpose is to tune the drives performance based on the demands of the device. This type of software will enable the better drive reliability in future devices using it. If you enjoyed this article, make sure to check out the rest of our extensive CES Coverage. You can help support us by Digging this article. 
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