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TDK to release 2.5TB and 3TB HDDs by November 2010 |
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Written by Jon Worrel
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Monday, 08 February 2010 22:52 |
 
Four-platter and five-platter implementations
Back in August 2009, several news outlets reported that TDK had revealed an
inconclusive roadmap to a group of financial analysts stating that the company
would begin shipping 2.5-inch 640GB and 3.5-inch 2.5TB hard disk drives in the
first quarter of 2010.
In particular, the roadmap
depicted 320GB platters for 2.5-inch drive heads heading toward volume
production that month and predicted that drive manufacturers should begin
announcing 640GB two-platter drives for 2.5-inch Small-Form-Factor products by
the end of the year, with the possibility of 640GB three-platter drives as
well.
The implication at the time
was that drive manufacturers could very well announce 3.5-inch four-platter
drives with a total storage capacity of 640GB x 4, or 2.5-Terabytes. The statement
didn’t seem out of question for many analysts, as we’ve already witnessed
several companies like Seagate and Western Digital accomplish the 2TB mark for
3.5-inch drives back
in January 2009.
Nevertheless, TDK has
recently published an updated roadmap with new information regarding its hard
drive capacities for the rest of 2010. The company is now moving its 3.5-inch
products to 640GB four-platter implementations for upcoming models with 2.5TB
of storage, and it doesn’t plan to stop there. The company will also produce
five-platter implementations that will undoubtedly make for some very
impressive 3TB hard drive products. Both four-platter and five-platter products
are scheduled to appear on the market by November 2010.
At this point, pricing and
production availability information have not been released, but we can infer
based on previous high-capacity storage trends that these drives won’t come
cheap.
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