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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by reitzensteinm on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:41AM (#3729130)
The maximum capacity of today's 3.5 inch hard drives is 4tb, and has been since last year. I know it's a press release, but that's bending the truth a little too far for my taste.
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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by lukeschlather on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @11:00AM (#3729568)
The meaning of the title is that Seagate is claiming that after a few years of stuttering they've jump-started exponential growth for the HD once again.

I'd say it's a big deal that Seagate claims they will develop 60TB HDs with your usual exponential growth curve (bearing in mind we're starting at 2-6TB.) "On the way" doesn't mean tomorrow.

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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by batiudrami on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @02:32AM (#3733367)
And I own a 1TB 2.5" external drive.
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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by lgeek on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @08:19AM (#3734001)
And I've got a 2.5" 9mm internal one, but I'm fairly sure that they're talking about density per platter and all 2.5" HDDs larger than 750 GB seem to use two platters.
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