4TB drives by 2011

[jdraughn]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9272

That is quite a bit of space. The article states that it will be introduced in 2009 and reach maturity by 2011. I wonder what that means.

The 1 TB 2.5" drives sounds pretty good. I have a USB powered 160GB drive which I use all the time. Would be cool to cram 4 (or more) of those drives into a SFF system in raid 0.

Makes me wonder what this will do for competition. 4TB drives by hitachi by 2009 or 2011. If no one else can compete with the same size drives, then the only thing they could do is drop prices on their drives with less capacity. I have a feeling we are going to start seeing some VERY cheap 1TB drives in 2 or 3 years or VERY expensive 4TB drives.

 

[Dew]

Considering the 1TB drives have dropped from $400 to $320 in a matter of 6 months(IIRC), I think we can expect the same pricing entry points for the 4TB drives when they hit the market.

Personally, I'm waiting for the 1TB drives to hit $200, then I can get 8 of them for $1600 to upgrade my 8x320GB array. More than likely though, I'll just get 8 of them when I get my tax returns this year, since my tax return should be around $3000.