More storage coming ... cheap.

For those people who just don't seem to think it can get better, consider that within a few years you'll be able to head to Costco and pick up your 2TB and 2.5TB hard disks for your personal computers. This article outlines the announcements from Seagate and Hitachi announcing record densities in magnetic media ... and the fact that the 1TB drives will be in our hands by this coming summer.

So when will the 4TB and 5TB disks be here? 2010? Sooner?

Seagate, Hitachi up density in hard drive material. Blog: Seagate and Hitachi celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the hard drive by announcing two records in areal density, or the amount... [CNET News.com]

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