WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!

WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!

Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Terabyte home on 27. Jul, 2009 | View 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.

Big Little Disks Are On The Way

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 16. Jun, 2008 | View Comments

The relentless march of hard drive capacity is about to reach its next cantonment as 500 GB 2.5″ drives begin to arrive this month.  These little half-terabyte wonders will continue the downward pressure on price and challenge flash-based drives just as they stake their claim in the main stream of the market.

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