• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
    • Stephen Foskett
      • My Publications
        • Urban Forms in Suburbia: The Rise of the Edge City
      • Storage Magazine Columns
      • Whitepapers
      • Multimedia
      • Speaking Engagements
    • Services
    • Disclosures
  • Categories
    • Apple
    • Ask a Pack Rat
    • Computer History
    • Deals
    • Enterprise storage
    • Events
    • Personal
    • Photography
    • Terabyte home
    • Virtual Storage
  • Guides
    • The iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Guide
      • The iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide
    • The iPad Exchange ActiveSync Guide
      • iPad Exchange ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide
    • Toolbox
      • Power Over Ethernet Calculator
      • EMC Symmetrix WWN Calculator
      • EMC Symmetrix TimeFinder DOS Batch File
    • Linux Logical Volume Manager Walkthrough
  • Calendar

Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Understanding the accumulation of data

You are here: Home / Archives for areal density

areal density

Seagate Jumps Hitachi’s Density Record With 4 TB Hard Disk Announcement

September 8, 2011 By Stephen 1 Comment

Earlier this week, Hitachi GST (soon to be part of Western Digital) announced they would soon ship a 1 TB single-platter hard disk drive. But archrival Seagate rained on their parade financing immediate shipment of their own 4 TB unit. With the industry consolidating rapidly, it's good to see healthy competition among the two remaining hard disk drive giants. Seagate's 4 TB … [Read more...] about Seagate Jumps Hitachi’s Density Record With 4 TB Hard Disk Announcement

Forecasting Seagate’s Next-Generation Momentus 5400.8 Family

October 25, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Seagate is one of the world's most-successful hard disk drive companies, consistently ranked first in overall sales for a decade. The company is respected for their high-end products, but is aggressively moving into the world of smaller hard disks for laptops and portable storage as well. The company's mainstream "Momentus" portable hard disk family has kept pace with the … [Read more...] about Forecasting Seagate’s Next-Generation Momentus 5400.8 Family

Seagate Breaks the Areal Density Limit With 1 TB 2 Platter 2.5″ Drive

October 18, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Storage capacity continues to move forward on both 3.5" and 2.5" hard disk drives. On the small form factor side, Western Digital was first with a 250 GB platter, then Seagate shot back with a 320 GB platter, then it was Hitachi at 375 GB. So it was only a matter of time until the magical half-terabyte mark would be reached, yielding 1 TB in a 2-platter drive. Now Seagate has … [Read more...] about Seagate Breaks the Areal Density Limit With 1 TB 2 Platter 2.5″ Drive

WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!

July 27, 2009 By Stephen 3 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. … [Read more...] about WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!

I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!

January 6, 2009 By Stephen Leave a Comment

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 perhaps a 2.0 TB 4-platter version … [Read more...] about I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!

Primary Sidebar

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.

Edward Snowden

Subscribe via Email

Subscribe via email and you will receive my latest blog posts in your inbox. No ads or spam, just the same great content you find on my site!
 New posts (daily)
 Where's Stephen? (weekly)

Download My Book


Download my free e-book:
Essential Enterprise Storage Concepts!

Recent Posts

How To Install ZeroTier on TrueNAS 12

February 3, 2022

Scam Alert: Fake DMCA Takedown for Link Insertion

January 24, 2022

How To Connect Everything From Everywhere with ZeroTier

January 14, 2022

Electric Car Over the Internet: My Experience Buying From Vroom

November 28, 2020

Powering Rabbits: The Mean Well LRS-350-12 Power Supply

October 18, 2020

Tortoise or Hare? Nvidia Jetson TK1

September 22, 2020

Running Rabbits: More About My Cloud NUCs

September 21, 2020

Introducing Rabbit: I Bought a Cloud!

September 10, 2020

Remove ROM To Use LSI SAS Cards in HPE Servers

August 23, 2020

Test Your Wi-Fi with iPerf for iOS

July 9, 2020

Symbolic Links

    Featured Posts

    Thinking About Storage In a New Way, From Cloud to Flash, with Dropbox and Fusion-io

    July 23, 2013

    What’s (Still) Wrong With Dropbox For Business

    April 17, 2013

    Why Are PCIe SSDs So Fast?

    June 12, 2013

    The Terrifying True Story Of Virtual Machine Mobility

    December 22, 2011

    Free as in Coffee – Thoughts on the State of OpenStack

    May 2, 2016

    How Will Cisco Recover From The Consumer Strategy Blunder?

    January 2, 2013

    The Four Horsemen of Storage System Performance: The Rule of Spindles

    August 25, 2010

    Aerobie AeroPress Review: The Hacker Coffee Maker

    February 7, 2011

    Preserving Your Credibility Is Your Prime Directive

    June 4, 2012

    Faster Ethernet Gets Weird

    June 19, 2015

    Footer

    Legalese

    Copyright © 2022 ยท Log in