Although I realize the difference, I found an article from 4 years ago (2007) where Hitachi released a 1 TB hard drive aimed for consumers (there were others at the time as well): http://www.pcworld.com/article/128400/hitachi_introduces_1te... . Definitely an interesting read as it provides some context at the state of data relative to 2007.
No, it wasn't a poor attempt. The grandparent failed to read your post. Thank you for the interesting link; it adds an interesting dimension to the announcement.
I was going to bring this up. I don't follow the hardware scene at all unless I'm buying parts.
I bought a fairly cheap OCZ SSD, but they don't have quite the best reputation (anecdotal evidence). I've read stories about SSDs not lasting long in general, but OCZ seems to have a fairly poor track record among that and an even poorer customer service record. One story I caught was the change of manufacturing for one of their lines of SSDs which affected performance and presumably cut costs without notifying consumers of the change.
I wonder how the acquisition of a controller company will affect their 'power' so to speak.
i have a total of 3 SSDs bought in 2009 (2x SuperTalent Ultradrive, 1x Intel X25-M), all still running fine and used heavily each day. Knock on wood :)
It's interesting that they've bought Indilinx. OCZ has been Sandforce's most visible customer for a while. 1TB for $1,300 is a good price. The 600GB Intel SSD's that we've been purchasing at work only cost $200 less.
Getting closer to breaking that $1/GB barrier. Looking forward to seeing if reliably has improved any (buddy of mine has that random bsod issue with his OCZ SSD).
