Samsung launches new salvo in 'war on tera' with new 2TB HDD

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:01

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Although Samsung recently showcased an upcoming 2TB external hard drive at a Samsung press event, a new internal 2TB model has beat it to market, promising high performance and power efficiency.

I remember dreaming, as a child, of one day owning a 1GB hard drive, seeing as my very first hard drive was a 30MB model that used an RLL card to boost capacity to 60MB, but these days 1GB is as old hat as floppy disk drives and even 1GB USB flash drives.

These days 1TB (terabyte or 1000 gigabytes) is the norm, with 1.5TB drives on the market, and 2TB also common in stores.

Although consumers are yet to see 10TB or even 100TB drives arrive on the market, 2TB is becoming ever more affordable, and in a world of ever more digital content, more desirable.

Space is, after all, the final frontier, and as hard drive manufacturers embark on their endless journeys to conquer the confines of ever more space in ever smaller packages, using strange new types of magic dust and boldy going where no hard disk mechanisms have gone before in their attempts to beat competitors, beat flash and maybe one day introduce true holographic storage.

But hey, that’s all in the future. Today is a different story, one where the “war on tera” has produced affordable two terabyte hard drives, something that certainly is welcome in our increasingly frenetic storage-addicted world.

Samsung’s latest 2TB hard drive is called the HD203WI, a “high performance hard disk drive for the desktop market”, and features four 500GB disks internally for that total of 2TB capacity.

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