Starting in mid-March, Dell and its Alienware subsidiary began giving buyers theoption to configure select XPS, Aurora, and Area 51 desktops with a 1TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 drive. In case you’re curious, Dell says that’s enough storage to keep a million photos, 16 daysof DVD-quality video, or 1 million minutes of music. Yikes. As Neil Hand, Dell’s VP of worldwide consumer marketing product group, aptly put it, “This type of capability used to be available only to the largest corporations.” The 7,200rpm 7K1000 includes 32MB of cache; uses a 3Gbps SATA interface; and offers 8.5ms/9.2ms (read/write) and 4.17ms average seek and latency times, respectively. At press time, customizing a Dell or Alienware rig with the 1TB drive added $400 to the original price.