Seagate envisions 2.5 TB desktop hard drives for 2009

Can you wrap your mind around this? A 2.5 TB hard drive sitting there in your desktop. Wow, just imagine the Windows patches that you could fill that puppy with!

Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate today provided an updated outlook on the future of the hard drive. The company nearly tripled today’s highest storage density and believes that 275 GB capacities will be realistic for future Ipods, while desktop computers will be able to store up to 2.5 TB on one drive.

Hard drives, for the most part of their existence, were very well ahead of actually storage needs. It was not until recently that hard drives began to fall behind and concerns if current drives were actually capable to hold HD media content on the very high end and if small form-factor hard drives could offer the storage space necessary to differentiate themselves from the accelerating growth of flash memory chips…. Source: TG Daily