Seagate unveils 1.5TB drive, more sleepless nights for ISPs

The phenomenal growth of storage space has truly become a nighmare of sorts for ISP's trying to keep up with bandwidth hungry downloaders across the globe. It wasn't too long ago when a 80GB hard drive would set you back a few hundred ringgit, now barely a couple of years on, you could grab a 500GB monster for a little under RM300!




Seagate today debuted the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs. This drive marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.