Seagate inadvertently leaked some hints about its plans to release a 750gb hard drive later this year.
Seagate representatives have told us that the information posted was “very premature” and was not be posted on the website for several weeks. Seek time information has not been released yet, which has traditionally been considered the problem area for perpendicular recording devices. However, the 7200.10 datasheet claims all drives in the series will have a 4.16ms average latency time.
Excellent. Announcements like this will help continue the continuing Moore’s Law-like decline in the cost of storage space. Currently if you stick to SATA drives, it costs about $0.64/gigabyte. Cut that price in half over the next year or two, and 5 terabytes worth of hard drive space falls to the $1,600 mark.
Who needs flying cars when hard drive space starts to become that cheap?