In January we told everyone that in 2007 the 1TB hard drive from Hitachi will start shipping and then in March, it did with Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000. Buffalo was the one that announced in April that they also have a 1GB hard disk. So where does this leave Samsung and Seagate, renowned disk makers? It’s now in the middle of the summer to have their 3GBps SATA hard drives with 1TB capacity, announced.

Samsung SpinPoint F1 is spinning 3x 334GB platters which will keep the weight and sound really low if we think that the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 is doing 4x 250GB (8 heads) platters and Hitachi is doing 5x 200GB (10 heads) platters. However Hitachi still has an advantage: 32MB buffer that Samsung and Seagate only dream on (they do 16MB cache right now).

Prices for the two new models is going to be near $400.

Samsung (translation), Seagate - press releases

[via Engadget]

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