Are hard drives over 4 TB coming out any time soon?

ulillillia

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Once I get Windows 7, I'd like to get a bigger hard drive. Right now, I'm leaning toward at least a 2 TB hard drive with preference toward 4 TB. Although I don't plan on getting one very soon, I do intend on it in around 2 to 4 months from now. I've noticed for a very long time (over a year by now) that 4 TB is the biggest available hard drive on Newegg (for the 3.5-inch size). I would like to know if it's worth waiting longer for any bigger hard drives to become available. It's primarily intended to store video files which already currently eat up almost 500 GB. The OS will not be installed on it. I'm just asking so I can plan ahead. Thanks for any info.
 
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Just dont expect greater than 6TB for a while. That would be using seven platters. Thats alot of platters for 1 drive. 1TB platters are fairly new and I think it will be a while before we see more than that.