Hitachi Announces 4 TB Hard Drives
By Cássio Lima on December 12, 2011 - 3:50 PM

Hitachi has just announced two 4 TB storage solutions, the Deskstar 5K4000 internal hard drive and the Touro Desk external hard drive.

The 4 TB Deskstar 5K4000 features SATA-600 interface, 32 MB of buffer, and uses Advanced Format, which increases the sector size on HDDs from 512 bytes to 4,096 bytes. It is available with a suggested retail price of USD 399.99.

The 4 TB Touro Desk external drive is equipped with one Deskstar 5K4000 drive, has a black, textured body, a USB 3.0 interface, and offers 3 GB of free cloud storage from HitachiBackup.com. This drive will be available in January with a suggested price of USD 419.99.

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