Last month I mentioned Hitachi’s annoucement of a 400gb hard drive. Now Seagate has announced its own 400gb hard drive. This one’s a three-platter drive (as opposed to the four-platter Hitachi model), with a 16mb cache. It will be interesting to see head to head performance comparisons, but as I’ve said before, the continually declining costs of large-scale storage is just amazing.
Seagate is also apparently going to start selling a 100gb USB-powered hard drive in the consumer market. I hope they get that out soon as I’ve almost filled up my SmartDisk FireLite 80gb drive and would prefer to buy a 100gb portable drive rather than another 80gb one.
No word yet on pricing for either model.
Source:
Disc Drive Leader Seagate Increases PC Hard Drive Capacities to 400GB, Unveils New Portable and Pocket External Drives. Press Release, Seagate, June 14, 2004.