Digital Home Thoughts: Seagate Announces Major Revamp of Hard Drives

"Seagate Technology is preparing a major revamp of its disk drives, and is expected to introduce smaller physical and larger capacity drives in keeping with the rest of the market. The company will make the announcement in mid-June. It will affect the entire range of drives and reflect increased areal density, gaining 75GB/platter. Brian Dexheimer, Seagate's executive VP for sales and marketing, says, "We will be making announcements in the next 30 days around the entire range: 3.5 inch to sub-2.5-inch." At the 10,000-rpm enterprise drive level, expect 73GB to 300GB capacity levels, using the existing 4-platter design."

The article goes on to say that Segate is also going to be releasing 1.8 inch, 1.0 inch, and 0.8 inch drives for notebooks and portable devices. Bring it on I say!