WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Terabyte home on 27. Jul, 2009 | Comments
Western Digital announced this morning the world’s first “1 TB mobile hard drive!” But although the news is great for storage-hungry folks looking for a portable external drive, it doesn’t quite mark a sea change in the storage industry since this drive cannot be used in (most) laptops.
I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 06. Jan, 2009 | Comments
The inexorable march of areal density continues with this week’s release of two breakthrough two-platter hard disk drives:
First up is Seagate, with their next-generation 3.5″ “7200.12″ drive family. Boasting 500 GB per platter, the drives are initially offered in 500 GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB versions, but we expect a 1.5 TB three-platter and [...]
