Seagate to Offer 300 TB Drive by 2010

Posted on January 4, 2007

ITWire is reporting that Seagate will offer a 300 TB 3.5-inch hard drive by 2010. TB apparently means terabits and not terabytes but it still converts to a massive 37.5 terabytes. This is said to be enough to store the entire Library of Congress cwithout any compression."

The way technology moves forward, 300 TB on a 3.5-inch hard drive may not seem so big in 2010. But here in 2007, it's a lot of data, especially when Seagate's largest single hard drive capacity is a paltry 750 GB in comparison.
-Correction- The 300 TB is actually terabits, and not terabytes. Therefore, the new Seagate drive in 2010 will store approximately 37.5 terabytes, and while that's just over 10 times smaller than a real 300 terabyte drive, it's still massive compared to the drives we are using today. And who knows what we'll have by 2011, or 2012!

With than kind of massive storage people won't have any trouble storing tons of home videos and full length movies on their home PC. And it's just three years away.

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