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Seagate says it's the first HDD manufacturer to ship 500GB 3.5-inch disk platters with its 1TB, 2-platter Barracuda 7200.12 HD product. The highest-capacity Barracuda, the 7200.11, can gulp up to 1.5TB of data on its four platters, meaning 375GB per platter. So a theoretical Barracuda 7200.13 could have four 500GB platters and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Samsung will have a 2Tb 3.5 SSD this time next year

    at the current rate of growth.

    Seagate are screwed in less than 18 months.

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  2. samuel duckfield

    No prizes for guessing...

    ...how many typical owners of these multi-terabyte drives will be taking regular backups...!

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  3. Jamie Kephalas
    Paris Hilton

    I'd really prefer

    more work into making ssd's faster and more economically viable.

    PH, she's also out of my price range.

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  4. hikaricore
    Pirate

    meh

    As long as their 2TB drives aren't plagued with the problems of the 1.5TB chite the released awhile back I don't care if the do hit the wall. All I want is about 4 of these puppies to make my ultimate raid5 media server.

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  5. John Colman
    Alert

    But think of the flip side!!!

    At this rate we'll soon be able to have a database detailing every UK call and email stored in a data centre the size of Jacqui Smith's brain...

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  6. Steve Foster

    @Flip Side...

    Yeah, but a data centre that small will be "mislaid" on the 5pm train...

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    @flip side , steve foster

    steve, you and john colman are both assuming Jacqui Smith actually has a brain.

    Personally I don't reckon Stephen Hawking armed with an electron microscope would be able to find it, so it really wouldn't matter about a data centre that small getting lost.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    New Standard Unit for elReg

    The TB or TeraBimbo, 2 TeraBimbos = 1 Whacki-Jacki Brain. Now, how many of them can you get into an olympic sized swimming pool

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  9. shoong
    Alien

    really?

    Is 2TB really necessary? How many illegally downloaded movies can fit in there? Like... 2000? Do we really need to continue this outrageous madness?!

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