Not finding the reference on the 200 gig disc at the moment!
And also found this:
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Seagate envisions 2.5 TB desktop hard drives for 2009
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September 15, 2006 11:22
Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate today provided an updated outlook on the future of the hard drive. The company nearly tripled today's highest storage density and believes that 275 GB capacities will be realistic for future Ipods, while desktop computers will be able to store up to 2.5 TB on one drive.
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S eagate's currently highest mass-produced storage density is 133 Gb/inch2, but the company believes that this value will increase on a fast pace. 1.8" drives, the form factor used for example by higher-end portable audio players such as Apple's Ipod could soon reach 275 GB. 2.5" notebook drives will grow to 500 GB and desktop drives to 2.5 TB - which is enough to store 41,650 hours of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games - at least by today's standards.
Kryder believes that these capacity levels could be achieved by 2009. Seagate's largest drive today is a 750 GB 3.5" PMR drive, which is ample space for storing music and image. In times of HD video, the drive may not be enough anymore - as one drive can hold the content of only 15 Blu-ray disks. For the future, Seagate told TG Daily in an earlier interview, PMR may storage densities of up to 1 TB/inch2, which could translate into 5 TB hard drives - which would be in line with the estimate Hitachi mentioned in April of 2005.
Hard drives not only need to accelerate their growth on the high end, but on the low-end as well. With flash memory sticks already reaching 16 GB - which is above the largest micro hard drives today - and a recent announcement of Samsung that flash memory cards will reach more than 100 GB capacity in the foreseeable future, today's announced progress needs to be put into mass production rather sooner than later.