Back to the articlePosted Tuesday 6th January 2009 12:03 GMT
Samsung will have a 2Tb 3.5 SSD this time next year #
at the current rate of growth.
Seagate are screwed in less than 18 months.
Seagate dishes up 1TB drive, looks ahead to 2TB
Seagate says it's the first HDD manufacturer to ship 500GB 3.5-inch disk platters with its 1TB, 2-platter Barracuda 7200.12 HD product. The highest-capacity Barracuda, the 7200.11, can gulp up to 1.5TB of data on its four platters, meaning 375GB per platter. So a theoretical Barracuda 7200.13 could have four 500GB platters and …
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Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:11 GMT
No prizes for guessing... #
...how many typical owners of these multi-terabyte drives will be taking regular backups...!
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:11 GMT
I'd really prefer #
more work into making ssd's faster and more economically viable.
PH, she's also out of my price range.
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:11 GMT
meh #
As long as their 2TB drives aren't plagued with the problems of the 1.5TB chite the released awhile back I don't care if the do hit the wall. All I want is about 4 of these puppies to make my ultimate raid5 media server.
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:11 GMT
But think of the flip side!!! #
At this rate we'll soon be able to have a database detailing every UK call and email stored in a data centre the size of Jacqui Smith's brain...
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 14:29 GMT
@Flip Side... #
Yeah, but a data centre that small will be "mislaid" on the 5pm train...
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 15:20 GMT
@flip side , steve foster #
steve, you and john colman are both assuming Jacqui Smith actually has a brain.
Personally I don't reckon Stephen Hawking armed with an electron microscope would be able to find it, so it really wouldn't matter about a data centre that small getting lost.
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 16:39 GMT
New Standard Unit for elReg #
The TB or TeraBimbo, 2 TeraBimbos = 1 Whacki-Jacki Brain. Now, how many of them can you get into an olympic sized swimming pool
Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 11:01 GMT
really? #
Is 2TB really necessary? How many illegally downloaded movies can fit in there? Like... 2000? Do we really need to continue this outrageous madness?!
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