Well well well, SSDs may be encroaching on the old ol’ 2.5 inch platter spinning drives used for laptops, netbooks or HTPCs but Western Digital, long a proponent of disk size, has announced two record breaking feats in it’s latest Scorpio Blue 750gb and 1TB drives. Yes, you got that right, 1 Terabyte is now possible in a single drive in your netbook or your laptop. This also allows portable storage without power adapters to go up to that single terabyte. Western Digital has managed to cram 333gb into a single platter which is astonishing to say the least considering the previous largest disks has been 500gb or 640gb.
This will probably slow down the push of SSDs for just a while longer as 256gb SSDs are only just making their entry and already manufacturers have had to price them sky high. Not so, this Scorpio Blue, a single terabyte of data will only cost US$250 which seems reasonable considering it’s newness in terms of it’s space and technology. As with all platter spun hard disks, expect the typical price cuts in a few months time where manufacturers start mass adoption of disks this size.
Size do matter, indeed.
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yo yo kevlar.. what’s HTPC ? =X
can i request for entries to state their actual names followed by their abbreviations =X haha
oops sorry Wenxiang, HTPC stands for Home Theater Personal Computers, those small computers they use to serve videos and stuff to the tv and you get to use your tv to serve as a monitor for the HTPC
What do you need 1TB for anyway?
Wait, Don’t answer that!