Hitachi 1TB drives showing up in retail...

[GeezerButler]

The *competitor* have OEM Hitachi 1TB drives on the shelf today so I guess OcUK should have 'em soon - hopefully they'll be cheaper here as these were priced up at £249.99....

OcUK can do better than that right?

 

[lsg1r]

thats looking promising fro a sub 200 quid mark

Hope so because that would be just the right price in my view

 

[mosfet]

No way are these going to be sub £200 on release. They'll linger around £250 until the competition heats up.

 

[Cupra]

i think 200 is about right tbh

 

[VaderDSL]

£225

 

[lsg1r]

No way are these going to be sub £200 on release. They'll linger around £250 until the competition heats up.

I work without vat added as theyll be bought for business purposes, nice 5 disk raid array

 

[Slackworth]

They have been given a very short exclusive on the product. I would advise waiting as we will be able to destroy their price by a looooooooong way and it is only around a week to two weeks maximum.

The Hitachi 750GB drive will also be available next week.

 

[Johnnytoxic]

could deffo do with two of these. Using one as a mirror.

 

[lsg1r]

I would advise waiting as we will be able to destroy their price by a looooooooong way and it is only around a week to two weeks maximum.

Figured that might be the case, the psb are usually overpriced

 

[Slackworth]

No way are these going to be sub £200 on release.

Oh really?

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 NCQ 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 NCQ 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM

Both available for pre-order and much cheapness.

 

[ray]

I was planning to get a 500GB drive to replace my 250GB Samsung but that price for the 750GB Hitachi is so tempting!

Anandtech has tested the 1TB drive in a RAID0 configuration:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2969

 

[rezza]

I was planning to get a 500GB drive to replace my 250GB Samsung but that price for the 750GB Hitachi is so tempting!

Anandtech has tested the 1TB drive in a RAID0 configuration:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2969

The benchmarks results int erms of av read speed are not different to my Hitachi 320 GB in RAID 0 config. In terms of speed it doesnt offer much improvement. But it is a TB harddrive and thats where it wins.

 

[mosfet]

Oh really?

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 NCQ 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 NCQ 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM

Both available for pre-order and much cheapness.

I see OCUK buyers fell right into my carefully planned trap

 

[Slackworth]

I see OCUK buyers fell right into my carefully planned trap

Not really but the PSB are just charging a lot of money purely because they have exclusivity and a large store to pay for.

 

[madman045]

Does anyone know of any raid controllers that will support 1TB drives?

 

[Supertaff]

Just appeared on overclockers news for today for pre order

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-032-HI

Less than £200 @ £199.74 inc vat.

Wow, two of these would make a lovely raid in the NAS enclosure I want.

Taff

 

[tomos]

not keen on these. especially when i just bought 2 500GB Seagate drives for £120

750GB drives are still too expensive for what they are so i'm hoping 1TB drives from seagate will knock down 500gig drives even lower.

 

[Nelly]

Just say's Pre-Order, any ideas of dates. . . . eta??

 

[tom_e]

Just say's Pre-Order, any ideas of dates. . . . eta??

around a week to two weeks maximum.

The Hitachi 750GB drive will also be available next week.

 

[Nelly]

lol, my apologies II should have read the thread instead of jumping the gun. Still needs updating on the website. . .