Dell and Alienware have announced that from now on customers who buy select XPS, Aurora and Area 51 gaming desktop computers can super-size their storage space by adding the world’s first consumer one terabyte (TB) hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
Neil Hand, VP, worldwide consumer marketing consumer product group explains, “Digital content use is exploding in the consumer market – with this 1TB hard drive, a lifetime of memories, music and other information can be made, stored and shared with others. This kind of capability used to be available only to the largest corporations. With the amazing advancement in hard drives and the engineering in our systems, we’re now able to bring it to customers.”
The 1TB HDD will allow users to store a million photos, 16 days of DVD quality video or even a million minutes of music. Dell has also introduced its first ever “Video Time Capsule”, which will allow contributors to share their digital videos for generations to come. The video content that is submitted to StudioDell for the remainder of 2007 will be copied on a 1TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive and will be stored for 50 years on the Dell campus in Round Rock, TX.