200GB Notebook Drives — About Time
The other day I was discussing storage issues with some people and someone asked how many gigabytes are in a petabyte. The correct answer — not enough.
Unfortunately, barring any significant breakthroughs we are still a long way from the day when a petabyte of storage is economical (i.e., when I can afford it for my home machine). Thankfully, though, storage makers keep plugging away.
For example, Fujitsu recently announced that it will begin shipping 200gb 2.5″ SATA drives in the third quarter of 2006. This drive will utilize the perpendicular recording technique that can be used to store more data in the same amount of space as compared to traditional methods.
Meanwhile, the cost of buying a terabyte of space continues to decline. Today you can pick up a couple 500gb HDs for as little as $540, putting a 5tb array of HDs at significantly less than $3,000.
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Apr 23rd, 2006
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