Seagate Says 2.5 TB Disk Drives Coming By 2009 - [hardware] 08:20 PM EDT - Sep,15 2006 - post a comment This
Seagate press release has announced that the hard drive maker has set a new
world's record for hard drive capacity, with 421 Gbits of space per square inch.
Here is a snip on how this might affect disk drives in the near future:
At the demonstrated density level, Seagate expects the capacity ranges to
result in solutions ranging in 40GB to 275GB for 1-and 1.8-inch consumer
electronics drives, 500GB for 2.5-inch notebook drives, and nearly 2.5TB for
3.5-inch desktop and enterprise class drives. At 2.5TB capacity, a hard drive
would be capable of storing 41,650 hours of music, 800,000 digital photographs,
4,000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games. Seagate anticipates that
solutions at these density levels could begin to emerge in 2009.
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