Following was on TechWeb today:

    Hitachi Unveils 400GB Drive For Nearline Storage, DVRs
    March 10, 2004 (1:14 p.m. EST)
    TechWeb News

    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Wednesday announced a massive
    400GB 3.5-inch ATA hard drive that it's pitching primarily to makers
    of digital video recorders (DVRs), but also to corporations as a
    "nearline" storage platform.

    The Deskstar 7K400, a 7,200 rpm (revolutions per minute) hard drive,
    will ship with either the standard parallel ATA or the newer, faster
    Serial ATA (SATA) interface, said Hitachi.

    The company is aiming the Deskstar at both consumers and
    corporations. For the former, the Deskstar hopes to find a home
    within high-end DVRs, the entertainment devices which digitally
    record cable, over-the-air, or satellite broadcasts, then let user
    temporarily pause the live feed. TiVo is the best know DVR brand.

    The huge capacity of the new Deskstar will allow DVRs to store as
    many as 400 hours of standard TV programming, 45 hours of HDTV
    programming, or more than 6,500 hours of CD-quality audio. Hitachi
    already makes a 250GB drive for DVRs.

    Hitachi also billed the 400GB monster as suited for the "nearline"
    storage environment -- dubbed that because such hardware that can't
    compete in speed and reliability with drives using the SCSI or Fibre
    Channel interfaces. Nearline storage, however, sports faster data
    access speeds and transfer rates than, say, tape, which competes in
    the same price range.

    The Deskstar 7K400 is available shipping in limited quantities for
    testing by system integrators and DVR manufacturers.

    Two weeks ago, Hitachi debuted
    http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040225S0005> a 300GB hard
    drive -- the 10,000 rpm Ultrastar 10K300 -- that targets high-end
    corporate data centers. On Tuesday, rival Fujitsu
    http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040309S0011> reacted by
    touting its own 10,000 rpm 300GB drive.

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