Seagate Jumps For 1TB
Seagate Jumps For 1TB
January 9, 2007: Seagate says 1 terabyte hard drives will be ready for global customers by June 2007.
Already Seagate has been shipping products with a 750GB storage capacity since April 2006, yet it is the coveted 1TB landmark product that customers really want to see.
Seagate says the 1TB hard drive will be delivered as the second generation of the 3.5-inch hard drive, featuring capacity-boosting perpendicular recording technology. Seagate believes its edge over competitors pushing similar products will be that it uses fewer heads and discs which can assist in increasing drive reliability, reducing operating temperatures and ultimately, power consumption, noise and weight.
Already Seagate has shipped more than 100 million 3.5-inch hard drives to both the enterprise and consumer markets.
Unfortunately however, it seems that Hitachi may beat Seagate to the 1TB benchmark with the roll-out of the 1TB magnetic hard drive, expected to ship in the first quarter of 2007. To be known as the Deskstar 7k1000 and CinemaStar 1TB, the drives have been designed predominantly for storage-hungry consumers, with applications for businesses also in mind.
Meanwhile Seagate has put a hand in on the consumer storage market at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Targeting small businesses and regular consumers who collect and share movies, music, books, art and photos on their systems, Seagate has delivered a family of Seagate FreeAgent data movers. Rather then putting the storage in a box, Seagate says it has moved on to realising customers want to be connected to their content, but also their desktop computing environment.