Terabyte Drive to Debut Later this Year

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @06:04AM from the welcome-to-the-future dept.

mytrip writes to mention the news that Hitachi will be releasing a terabyte storage drive this year. "These large drives also will get incorporated into televisions and personal video recorders. Hitachi, among others, already sells TVs with integrated hard drives in Japan and other markets. While large drives start out expensive, the price drops relatively quickly. Computer makers pay something in the 30-cent range for a gigabyte when buying hard drives, Healy said. The price at retail is around 50 cents or less."

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Inevitable by Kelson · 2006-08-15 06:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

I remember seeing a 500GB drive at Fry's a few months ago. As soon as I saw it, I knew that terabyte drives weren't far off.

Looks like the typical user is going to have to learn some more terminology soon.