Hitachi GST has announced the latest additions to its CinemaStar family of 3.5-inch hard drives, the 7K1000.C and 5K1000 CoolSpin. Both of them are available in a range of capacities from 160GB to 1TB, using 500GB per platter technology, and are pitched as the perfect solution for consumer electronics applications such as HD DVRs, DVD/HDD recorders, and media centers.

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Let us hope that Hitachi finally has gotten its act together after five years of mostly horrible drives, and three years of truly awful ones.

We need Hitachi doing well, because of their size around the world. Going back to the IBM days, it is difficult to remember any one line of Hitachi hard drives that was a good risk.... Too many failures. Too many clients ready to kill me.