The first popular desktop computer has a 1 terabyte hard drive

Dell shipped PCs equipped with hard drives with capacities of 1,000 gigabytes, equivalent to 16-day DVD content. Products are aimed at the consumer market instead of the usual business.

Photo: Ecoustics . Dell Neil Hand, vice president, said that hard drives with huge storage capacity are only available to large companies and organizations. However, thanks to improvements in the hard drive sector and low production costs, Dell was able to bring products to individual users.

The first Dell 1TB computer will be Alienware gaming systems, then XPS. They used Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 drive, 7,200 rpm, SATA 3 Gb / sec interface and 32 MB cache. This drive is manufactured according to the technology of orthogonal recording with 5 discs and has 540 USD.

Dell also introduced a new service, allowing users to upload videos to studiodell.com and can be stored there for 50 years.