WD and Fujitsu could offer 1TB 2.5-inch HDDs in 2010, sun could rise tomorrow

We've been around this stuff long enough to know that hard drives just keep getting bigger with time, but if you were eager to know exactly when a 1TB unit would be prepped and ready for your notebook, try 2010. According to those infamous "undisclosed sources," both Western Digital (which started shipping a 500-gigger today) and Fujitsu are looking to pump out 750GB 2.5-inch HDDs by mid-2009 and 1TB variants in 2010. Keep the faith, brethren.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 12th 2008 10:55PM]

Its a 2.5" drive. Before you comment RTFA.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 12th 2008 10:55PM]

Were is my 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5" Drive?

[Wwhat Posted Sep 12th 2008 11:32PM]

Since WD is always late to the game I'm guessing this means samsung/hitachi/seagate 1TB notebook drives q4/early 2009?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 13th 2008 12:14AM]

"Never" is a long time. If memory serves, a MB of RAM in 1987 was about or a little over $100, therefore, A GB of RAM would have cost around $100,000 in 1987. Memory is cheaper to make than hard drives, it's just that the infrastructure exists to make them and there is a lot of competition. The same will happen to SSD. It's inevitable.

[xValentine Posted Sep 13th 2008 1:06AM]

Well this is a good replacement for my Laptop and PS3's hard Drive.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 13th 2008 1:54AM]

Samsung will soon release their breakthrough SSD with 10 TB's of memory for under 1000.00 next year. Rumor has it they've perfected the technology faster than anyone else, and have found a way to mass produce HUGE solid state drives better than anyone else...

This will turn the HDD drive on its arse very soon....

watch, and learn.

[jbond Posted Sep 13th 2008 6:22AM]

As somebody else mentioned. Where's the 10k rpm 2.5" drive for laptops and the 5,8k 1.8" drive for tiny laptops? It's all very well having these huge capacities but can we have a bit more performance as well, please?