Posted by ketyung
on Oct/18/2007
at 3:53 am
We certainly have to thank all the hard drive manufacturers for their aggressiveness of finding ways to produce higher storage capacity for hard drives. After Hitachi announced that they could achieve 4TB by 2011, and Western Digital is another player that also has little success to show us here. Western Digital has just announced that they have successfully crammed 520GB into one square inch area, which this is double of today’s max of 200GB per square inch of hard drive density. Having this technology allows them to produce a whopping 3TB 3.5-inch drives by 2010. So, they will be one year ahead of Hitachi but only having 1TB less.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 am
I think they should be diverting their focus into the SSD market, as that is definitely the next step along the storage tech tree. Once the size of traditional drives gets to a certain point i expect development to stop.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:51 am
That is going to be most certainly true. There will come a point when investing into traditional harddrives becomes not worth while, and it will be time to invest in SSD solutions.
August 11th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Do we even need 3tb of memory?
August 31st, 2009 at 10:16 am
You might not, but I assure you, others do.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Do we need 3TB? Of course we do! I don’t think I will be satisfied until PETABYTE drives are the standard, and at that point I will probably need more!
There is no such thing as TOO MUCH computer power, either in raw speed or storage.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
It’s funny these people saying “do we need 3 tb” Heck yeah! I have my 400 dvd’s on three 1tb hard drives so it would help me save physical space.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 am
obviously TB’s are easily filled with the internet providers growing as well
not long from now, we’ll be using fiberglass instead of coax only. And then we’ll be able to download with 100Mbit and 100Mbit upstream.
Meaning that we’ll need more storage
November 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
dear wsley, in Scandinavia special Sweden, they have already for a quite a time 100Mbit up/down, 1Gbit up/down is also available in a city in Sweden and in another city in Norway
cheers