2.5 TB HDD Expected in 2010
The capacity bar has been raised according to TDK's roadmap.
A recent roadmap presented by TDK Corporation--a manufacturer of read/write heads for many hard disk drive (HDD) suppliers--revealed that 640 GB 2.5-inch and 2.5 TB 3.5-inch HDDs should become available around January 2010. For now, Seagate and WD provide HDDs with the largest capacities: 2 TB.
According to Register Hardware, TDK is currently producing high density read/write heads for 250 GB/platter (2.5-inch) and 500 GB/platter (3.5-inch). However, the roadmap indicates that the 2.5-inch drive read heads will jump up to 320 GB/platter (which apparently are already in qualification by its OEMs), and the 3.5-inch drive read heads will move up to 640 GB/platter.
The 3.5-inch 4-platter HDDs are expected to enter mass production in November and exit in January. The 2.5-inch 2-platter drives, on the other hand, will enter manufacturing this month and slip into mass production by December. HDD manufacturers should begin announcing the 2.5-inch drives by the end of the year, and the 3.5-inch drives as early as February 2010.
3.5-inch manufacturers may even provide a possible 3.2 TB, 5-platter model next year.

They always find a way.
At 3-8GB a game (assuming 5 for average), that's 500 games for me to pirate on a 2.5GB drive... That's 29 days at max bandwidth downloading for me... wow. My ISP would absolutely hate me (and fine me).
There are even drives with 334GB/platter design:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/western-digital-1tb-2.5-hdd,8347.html
"will enter manufacturing this month and slip into mass production by December"
So when are they coming out? Could it be a mistake?
I predict, that around 1012, 5GB Hard Drives will be on the market.
1GB SSD Drives will be $500
I predict, that around 1012, 5GB Hard Drives will be on the market.
1GB SSD Drives will be $500"
The only place I will be able to find a 5GB hard drive is in my father's old computer from the mid-90's.
Ditto, I don't have a need to store pirated stuff.
i'm confused, why not? (an actual question, not disagreeing with you), 48 bit is the standard at the moment isn't it? that allows numbers up to 280 trillion. even if it was in bits it would allow up to 35TB. what gives? and if I was to guess i would say its in sectors (512 bytes) so it should allow up to 144PB if thats the case... what would make sense is if we were using 32bitLBA, if the unit was sectors then the limit would be 2TB
also, surely we are up to 1TB increments? if this comes out at twice the price of a 2TB its gonna be a hard sell, even for me who considered paying 4x the price of a 1TB drive for a 2TB ;D
and to all those ppl who say "no one needs that much space" ask your self why your mobo comes with 4,8 or even 10 sata ports...
Plus a single 2TB drive costs 2.0-2.5x a 1.5TB drive.