It is official. The desktop storage market now has
three desktop hard drives to choose from with 1TB of capacity.
Hitachi's launch
beat Seagate to the punch as the 7K1000 series drive began shipping earlier
this year but
Seagate officially launched its 1TB model in the Barracuda 7200.11 line of
desktop drives just recently.
Samsung has also entered the mix by launching its 1TB SpinPoint F1 series
desktop drive. At $400 Hitachi, Samsung, and Seagate will offer hard drive space
at roughly $0.39/GB unformatted.
I thought Seagate always had had the the edge in HDD technology, but now it seems Samsung is ahead with their 334GB/platter density vs 250GB/platter on the Seagate. Would be nice to see a comparison between the three. Send me samples :-D