Western Digital has gained the honour of releasing the first two-terabyte drives in the market, with units turning up on Australian shelves.
Seagate last week unveiled a 500GB 2.5-inch notebook drive as well as a 1.5TB desktop hard drive, claiming industry firsts for both.
Unlike in the past, when hard-drive makers typically released the same basic drive for various markets, they now nip and tuck their products to fit specific customer profiles and applications.
Seagate Technology, best known as a maker of magnetic hard drives, plans to make storage components based on flash memory as well, according to CEO Bill Watkins.
Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives.
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