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.


May 6th, 2010 at 9:13 am
[...] claims that Seagate will have a 3TB HDD on its roadmap which will likely surface sometime this year. The Seagate 3TB HDD will clam in the [...]
June 7th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Pretty amazing article in terms of having been written in 2007 – now Seagate ha confirmed a 3TB drive in 2010 – so this comes full circle.
December 14th, 2010 at 8:26 am
[...] has launched a trio of 3TB hard drive solutions. They come in the forms of internal hard drive kits, external desktop drives and OEM [...]