Dawn of the Tera Era

July 17, 2008 Dawn of the Tera Era Greg Freiherr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was only a few years after I had bought my first desktop computer in 1983 — a dual floppy with RAM so low I can no longer remember its size — that I watched my next- door neighbor install a memory card on the motherboard of his new PC. This top-of-the-line system had a hard drive with half a megabyte of storage. But the memory card that cost $750 held twice that amount — all by itself. I was awestruck. Times have changed and this story has taken a seat next to gasoline for $1 a gallon and 5¢ bubble-gum baseball cards. We have entered the Tera Era, where kilobytes, megabytes, and even gigabytes are passé. Hitachi coined the name last week to publicize the release of its second-generation 1-TB hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B. It is faster, more energy efficient, and much smaller than the first-generation drive Hitachi released a year and a half earlier.

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