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Terabyte discs comes this year Filed
under: Uncategorized — pepik @ 4:28 am
If there's a storage fanatic in your family,
a perfect gift could be coming for her or him toward the end of the year:
1-terabyte hard discs. Desktop hard discs holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000
gigabytes, of storage will likely debut in 2006, according to Bill Healy,
senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies. These terabyte discs, which will have a
3.5-inch diameter, are expected to be incorporated into PCs and home
servers. It's not that big of a stretch for some hard discs makers.
Hitachi already sells a 500GB harddisc, while rival Seagate Technology
started shipping a 750GB disc to desktop makers in April. Seagate also
sells a home storage device with two 500GB discs to make up 1 terabyte.
Disc density effectively doubles every two years and increases steadily
over the two-year period; hence, a terabyte harddisc is on the horizon,
Healy said.