WTF is up with HD manufactures?

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Just where is this timetable you're apparently referring to? Who says development time is a linear process?

And who's broken the 1T "barrier"? It seems to me that in order to break that "barrier", you have to have a drive bigger than 1T.

And given that manufacturers rate a GB as 1 billion bytes, I'd say the "barrier" has yet to be "broken".

Patience, young grasshopper.