WTF is up with HD manufactures?

[rz]

[quote sekker]Come on, who here has need for more than 1TB of storage on most computers?
I have over 2TB of "available" storage on my G5, but am only using about 1.5TB of it right now.

[blooz]

I dunno guys, I appreciate the storage capacities of a CD or hard drive as opposed to a drawer full of photos, but I am trying to get all the most important ones printed and into an actual album. I'm old-fashioned I guess, and I want things(I've said this before) i can look at by candlelight if the power goes down or if modern civilization crashes into a nasty mess.

Assuming I survive of course.

[RAMd®d]

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.

[laarree]

Saw this news item today: http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/seaga...d-for-nex/

"CEO Bill Watkins told PC World yesterday that the company is finally getting ready to release its first SSD sometime next year, as well as launch a line of 2TB traditional hard drives."