In an interview with CNET, Hitachi senior vice president Bill Healy said that 1TB 3.5″ hard drives were likely to see their debut later this year. Currently Seagate holds the size crown with its 750gb 3.5″ inch hard drives.
And CNET’s Michael Kanellos can’t possibly report this without bringing out the same old tired line about hard drive size,
Granted, few people really need 1 terabyte of storage. But it sounds cool — sort of like you could be running a ballistic missile tracking site in your den. Besides, humans continue to show that they can come up with ways to gobble up hard drive space. High-definition video is expected to greatly expand the need for storage.
Frankly, 1TB of storage isn’t all that much. After all, 1TB of space is enough to store only 130-150 DVD quality movies, to speak nothing of HD. I have almost 400gb worth of music files, and will cross the 1 TB threshold in a couple years at most. Of course, I’m generating about 12-15 TB of files each year (archived on DVDs), so I may not be indicative of typical users.
It will be nice when the 1TB drives are out and fall to $200 apiece, so I can create a couple 4TB NAS arrays.
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Terabyte drive to debut later this year. Michael Kanellos, August 14, 2006.
