0.5TB drives on their way

I know some of you out there already boast >1TB RAID arrays, but we are growing ever closer to 1TB on a single drive. Hitachi are now half way there with the new drive which they are releasing...

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The Hitachi drives being released include the industry’s first half terabyte (500 GB) Serial ATA (SATA) drive for audio/video and other capacity-intensive applications – the Deskstar 7K500. In the mid-range category, Hitachi offers the Deskstar T7K250, a two-disk, 250 GB product, while the Deskstar 7K80 rounds out the portfolio with an 80 GB offering, targeting the most popular capacity point.

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More details over at GeekZone.

Looks like I'll be forgetting what a megabyte is soon. Gigabytes all the way!

mmm i wonder what the accessable capacity will be - probably around 450gb? lol - hard drives used to be struggling to get to 50gb, now we're losing that down the back of the sofa.