- 275GB for 1.8inch consumer electronics drives currently used in iPods, other mp3/video players and other consumer electronics devices that don't need to be as small as 1-inch hard drives allow.

- 500GB for 2.5-inch notebook drives, more than double the size of 200Gb 2.5” hard drives only recently announced by Toshiba. Futjistu promises their 200Gb hard drives will arrive in 2007, I'm sure Seagate has plans to introduce them in 2007 as well. We now know they expect 500Gb for 2009.

- Nearly 2.5TB for 3.5-inch desktop and enterprise class drives – the largest single hard drive today is from Seagate and is 'only' 750Gb in comparison, massive though 750Gb is today.

At 2.5TB capacity, a hard drive would be capable of storing 41,650 hours of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4,000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games.

The war between flash and hard drives is in full swing, with multi-terabyte sizes at consumer prices on the way in three or four years, with today's devices available at what are in today's terms, incredibly big sizes. And we've more data, documents, photos, videos, music files and more stuff than ever to store in the age of broadband and digital media.

If only we could similarly quicken the pace of advanced battery technologies so they would power our notebooks for a week and our mobile phones for a month or longer before needing a recharge...
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