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Hitachi introduces several new Mac hard drives

by Steven Sande Jan 4th 2012 at 12:00PM

Just ahead of the first days of CES 2012, Hitachi has introduced a line of new hard drive solutions for the Mac. The drives range in capacity from 750 GB up to a whopping 8 TB, and cover the gamut from internal drives to desktop and mobile solutions.

The internal drives that Hitachi is bringing to the table include the 2.5-inch 5,400 rpm 1 TB Travelstar 5K1000 and 3.5-inch, 7,200 rpm 4 TB Deskstar 7K4000. Both of these drives have full support for the 6 Gbps SATA 3 standard.

The mobile drives are bus-powered, with the G-Drive mobile using a FireWire connection and coming with 1 TB of storage. The G-Drive mobile USB uses the USB port, and comes in both 750 GB (US$150) and 1 TB capacities.

On the desktop front, Hitachi has announced the G-RAID which uses the Deskstar 7K4000 drive described earlier. The G-RAID comes in an 8 TB capacity (4 TB RAID 1) for $900. The G-Drive comes in four different capacities from 1 TB to 4 TB, with prices ranging from $200 to $450. The G-RAID and G-Drive come with FireWire, eSATA and USB 2.0 connectivity. Noticeably missing, however, is any mention of Thunderbolt connectivity.



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michaelc

wake me up when they support thunderbolt.
Seriously , what are the drive makers waiting for? There are millions of thunderbolt enabled macs out there, and Mac owners tend to have $.

January 06 2012 at 12:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Long

My next big drive will be Thunderbolt. Looks like it won't be Hitachi.

January 04 2012 at 3:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
donmontalvo

RAID0 = Storage System

NOT.

At most it's a temporary cache drive for Photoshop, AVID, etc.

Don Montalvo, TX

January 04 2012 at 3:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
donmontalvo

I hope Apple doesn't let their Mac Genius' continue to sell customers these RAID0 drives as viable Time Capsule solutions. RAID0 is fast but unreliable, has no redundancy and there are 3 points of failure (drive1, the stripe, drive2). Each time I heard a Mac Genius tell a customer that, I approach them to ask if they understand RAID0 vs RAID1 and the answer is the same "We know what we're talking about.".

Mac Genius. Right.

Don Montalvo, TX

January 04 2012 at 3:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robert

The new LaCie drive has a Thunderbolt interface and it is available right now.

January 04 2012 at 3:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Bassano

@Robert 3-4 month wait for the 1TB and £500/$600 for 2TB
No thanks, not this year

January 04 2012 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
core53mail

"Noticeably missing, however, is any mention of Thunderbolt connectivity."

Unfortunately, that will likely be a typical phrase for external drives at this year's CES. Maybe 2013 will be Thunderbolt's year since the tech seems to be getting ready to make more of a splash in the PC market. (I keep reminding myself that it took Firewire quite a while to catch on as well. USB as well, but few remember that these days since it's such a ubiquitous tech nowadays.)

January 04 2012 at 1:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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