Hitachi: HD-DVD is All About the Terabytes (HIT)

Yahoo! Japan Finance news reports that Hitachi Ltd (HIT) will be introducing a 2-3 terabyte hard disk drive HD-DVD recorder from 2007. Currently the largest capacity HD-DVD recorders are 1TB by both Hitachi (151,000 yen or $1,326) and Toshiba Corp (TOSBF). Toshiba's RD-A1 goes on sale in Japan on July 14th priced at 398,000 yen ($3,495).

By searching the Internet you can come across some interesting web sites that track the history of hard drives in terms of capacity and cost per byte. It's pretty amazing that gigabyte hard drives are already under $1/GB. Has anyone even seen a drive measured in megabytes recently? Flash memory measured in GB is now almost a must for the higher mega-pixel cameras and for MP3 players.

It seems to me that with all the possibilities of digital media and the necessity of data archiving by governments and corporations that data storage is worth considering as an investment.

Hitachi Ltd (HIT) 1-year chart:

Comments

[Paul Vail:]

HDD does not equal HD-DVD - Who the heck is writing tech articles and doesn't know the difference? Toshiba is NOT making a 1TB HD-DVD drive, they are making a multi-terrabyte Hard Disc Drive (HDD). Cripes!

2006 Jul 17 12:09 AM

[Steven Towns:]

Paul: Thanks for your comment pointing out the error in my posting about Hitachi's forthcoming 2-3 terabyte HDD DVD component (not HDD HD-DVD). SeekingAlpha readers, please also note that the current 1TB capacity component by Hitachi (DV-DH1000D) is not HD-DVD and instead should have been referred to as HDD DVD. However, Toshiba's RD-A1 which was due to launch on the 14th but has been postponed is in fact an HDD HD-DVD component.

2006 Jul 17 12:07 PM