Western Digital doubles HDD storage densities
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 18th 2007 1:55AM
posted October 18th 2007 1:55AM
It seems like hard drive manufacturers are all about the bold claims this week -- hot on the heels of Hitachi's promise to deliver 4TB drives in 2011, Western Digital is doing a little chest-thumping over its "successful demonstration" of a drive with a storage density of 520 gigabits per square inch. That's more than double today's max of 200Gb per square inch, and WD says cramming bits in that tight will result in 3TB 3.5-inch drives by 2010. Hmm, 1TB less one year sooner? Storage fanboys, to the comments!
and the additional storage will definitely come in handy. i started downloading the 1125mb 720p tv shows last week instead of the 350mb shrunken episodes. gotta have somewhere to store them
I'm predicting 2TB in 2009.
and 1.5TB in 2008.
Instead of making it bigger, they need to make it faster first.
i'm looking forward to that strange new storage media that resides in your computer's PCI Express slot...storage is nothing without bandwidth. plus, i see the market for 2.5 inch and smaller Hard disk drives dying out pretty soon, thanks to SSD's...but HDD's will live on in their 3.5 inch avatars a little longer...they'll find a home in your media center, your external data center, and your TV recorder....but not in PC's.