2.5 TB HDD Expected in 2010, possible 3.2TB

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A recent roadmap presented by TDK Corporation--a manufacturer of read/write heads for many hard disk drive (HDD) suppliers--revealed that 640 GB 2.5-inch and 2.5 TB 3.5-inch HDDs should become available around January 2010. For now, Seagate and WD provide HDDs with the largest capacities: 2 TB.

According to Register Hardware, TDK is currently producing high density read/write heads for 250 GB/platter (2.5-inch) and 500 GB/platter (3.5-inch). However, the roadmap indicates that the 2.5-inch drive read heads will jump up to 320 GB/platter (which apparently are already in qualification by its OEMs), and the 3.5-inch drive read heads will move up to 640 GB/platter.

The 3.5-inch 4-platter HDDs are expected to enter mass production in November and exit in January. The 2.5-inch 2-platter drives, on the other hand, will enter manufacturing this month and slip into mass production by December. HDD manufacturers should begin announcing the 2.5-inch drives by the end of the year, and the 3.5-inch drives as early as February 2010.

3.5-inch manufacturers may even provide a possible 3.2 TB, 5-platter model next year.
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Wake me up when we reach 10 TB HDDs.

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TDK? Strange newcomer to the HDD scene, don't they usually specialize in optical media and such? I wonder if they're getting parts for the hard drive like platters or actuators wholesale from other manufacturers, like Samsung does...
 
Did you even read the quote? They're a hdd read/write head manufacturer.

Very bad form to not link to the source of the citation though.
 
This does not surprise me at all. Hitachi is shipping their 2TB 7200RPM drives to the channel presently, and nothing in this industry stands still.
 
Dang, Doug, you're always ahead of the news. I want to know where you get your sources :p

Also, from my knowledge, they're right about the 2.5" roadmap, but I can't see any larger capacity hard drives entering the market so soon, current manufacturers are already have problems with their current generation of 2 TB drives.

When you increase in density, you increase the amount of magnetic traffic that's going to be going on the drives. Link: http://www.google.com/search?q=Adjacent+Track+Interference
This is only one of the many problems that face manufacturers ahead with larger and larger drives.
 
Source:

h**p://www.tomshardware.com/news/TDK-read-write-HDD-Platter,8417.html
 
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