14 DAY TRIAL // Japanese buyers always seem to get cool hardware and gadgets to play around with way before those of us living in other parts of the world have a chance to, and these 4TB hard drives from Hitachi are no different.
Codenamed HDS5C4040ALE630, the HDDs haven’t yet been announced by the company, yet these have somehow managed to make it on the shelves of retailers in Japan where they are priced at 26,800 yen (about US $ 345 or 259 Euro).
Outside of the 4TB of storage space, the drives also get 32 MB of buffer memory, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface and makes use of the CoolSpin technology meaning that their platters operate at around 5900 RPM, according to Tech Power Up.
When will these appears in other parts of the world is anybody’s guess at this time, but let’s keep our fingers crossed that their launch will bring cheaper 2TB and 3TB HDDs to us all.
UPDATE: Hitachi GST has just made official this new 4TB drive. Find out more, including prices, by following this link.
