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With the era of high definition upon us, storage media has become a more important part of our lives. All those high definition movies, music, and photos suddenly take up so much of our hard-drives that you might need Gigabytes and Gigabytes of storage just for keeping a couple of hi-def movies on hand.

Enter Hitachi, who at CES2007 showcases the world’s first TeraByte consumer hard-drive. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will be in a 3.5” standard desktop form factor, running at 7200 rpm with a 32 MB buffer, available in Serial ATA/Parallel ATA interfaces and will be priced at about 40c/Mb at USD $399. It will be released sometime in the first quarter of 2007. In addition, it’ll also be available in a 750 GB version.

Also being announced at the same time is the Hitachi Cinemastar, which will be specifically optimized for DVR (Digital Video Recording) purposes. There’s little detail about the Cinemastar, except that it will be available in the second quarter of 2007.

Read [CES 2007 Business Wire Press Release] Via [Sci Fi Tech]

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