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vaio on 14 September 2008

Western Digital's 2.5-inch to hit 1TB by early 2010

Western Digital (WD) and Fujitsu will likely have 1TB 2.5-inch disk drives available by early 2010 according to industry sources.

WD has just announced that it has started volume shipping its 500GB 2.5-inch Scorpio Blue drive, a notebook drive with 250GB per platter and a 5,400rpm spin speed. Seagate expects to ship its half terabyte 2.5-incher before the end of the year.

Our sources say WD and Fujitsu will have 750GB 2.5-inch drives by mid-2009 and 1 terabyte units by early 2010, if not the end of 2009. WD is building quite a track record of pipping Seagate by introducing notebook drives at progressively higher capacity points first, doing this with 250GB, 320GB and now 500GB models. This may not continue as Seagate has been catching up and will strive to match and exceed WD.

Seagate may well have its 750GB and 1TB notebook drives available before WD. ®

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/western_digital_2_5_inch_drive_roadmap/



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ph4nt on 14 September 2008

I have no clue why the average consumer would ever need that much space.



starcraft on 14 September 2008
ph4nt said:
I have no clue why the average consumer would ever need that much space.

PS3 installs.

 



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KBG29 on 14 September 2008

@ph4nt
Everyone will need this kind of space in a very short period of time. In the next 10 years the majority of people in first world countries will have most of their music, movies, TV shows, games, home video, and more all saved to hard drives. I have a 250GB in my PS3 right now and I only have 57GB left. My parents have a 320GB drive in their PS3 and right now they only have 31GB left in theirs.

I know this is just my family, but my parents only 3 years ago would not touch the internet. Now they only have an SDTV, and they don't really care about Blu-ray all that much. However they have been downloading movies like crazzy off of PSN, and my dad has put all of their CD's, and pictures on the PS3.



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starcraft on 14 September 2008

Holy hell.

What number of movies and stuff do they have on the PS3?



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markers on 14 September 2008
starcraft said:
ph4nt said:
I have no clue why the average consumer would ever need that much space.

PS3 installs.

 

 

 but your forgetting all the movies, games, music, and pictures. but nice jab i suppose, really that it hurts your precious xbox with that comment. because with installs our load times are faster by a very small margin :p



akuma587 on 14 September 2008

That's pretty cool. I bet it will be pretty expensive for awhile though.



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akuma587 on 14 September 2008
starcraft said:
ph4nt said:
I have no clue why the average consumer would ever need that much space.

PS3 installs.

 

 

At least we actually own our own HDD!  MS's DRM is so bad it isn't even funny sometimes.



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markers on 14 September 2008
kowenicki said:
starcraft said:
ph4nt said:
I have no clue why the average consumer would ever need that much space.

PS3 installs.

 

 

nice one. 

But its a good point, why would anyone need this in their laptop (or PS3 for that matter), now if we were talking a media server for all of your access points (360, PS3, laptop, music players etc) then it would make sense.  But carrying that much data around with you is insane!

 

i am waiting for the 500gb to put in my ps3. mainly because once i have it i will be purchasing lots of movies to have to watch forever and ever on my ps3.

 



ph4nt on 14 September 2008
KBG29 said:
@ph4nt
Everyone will need this kind of space in a very short period of time. In the next 10 years the majority of people in first world countries will have most of their music, movies, TV shows, games, home video, and more all saved to hard drives. I have a 250GB in my PS3 right now and I only have 57GB left. My parents have a 320GB drive in their PS3 and right now they only have 31GB left in theirs.

I know this is just my family, but my parents only 3 years ago would not touch the internet. Now they only have an SDTV, and they don't really care about Blu-ray all that much. However they have been downloading movies like crazzy off of PSN, and my dad has put all of their CD's, and pictures on the PS3.

 

I'd say the average consumer wouldn't have 1 TB of movies, music, games, shows, and movies on their computer.

I have a hard time filling up a 100 gig harddrive on my comp (but i do have a 500 gig external drive filled with like 30000 songs). I don't think digital distribution is going to be that huge when most people still think DVD and SDTV's are perfectly fine, I don't have a single minute of video on my comp, it's all on DVD's and will probably stay there. I think hard copies are going to be the norm for many years to come, there is just something better about owning an actual thing rather than data on a hard drive, plus if your drive gets corrupted, there goes everything.

I can see games within the next 10 years take up 50 gigs + each on a computer, so If you are a hardcore PC gamer it would probably help to have one, other than that I think it will be unnecesarry.