Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of storage will likely be announced in 2006, said Bill Healy, senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. These drives, which will have a 3.5-inch diameter, are expected to be incorporated into PCs and home servers. Healy wouldn’t say what companies would announce first. Sources at Seagate, however, said Seagate plans to come out with 1TB 3.5-inch drives by late 2006 or early 2007.
It's not that big of a stretch for some hard drive makers. Hitachi already sells a 500GB drive, while rival Seagate Technology started shipping a 750GB drive to desktop makers in April. Seagate also sells a home storage device with two 500GB drives to make up 1 terabyte. Drive density effectively doubles every two years and increases steadily over the two-year period; hence, a terabyte drive is on the horizon, Healy said.
The next line is quite funny, actually.
Granted, few people really need 1 terabyte of storage.
Really? I could use one or two. Especially when CDs and DVD backups don't last forever. At least HDDs last longer, especially in a RAID configuration. With file sizes only growing (HD-DVD backups on the PC anyone?) it's not enough to have one TB... How about 200TB drives? That would mean I wouldn't have to upgrade for a while.
[zdnet]
Tags: Hitachi, 1 terabyte, HDD
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