Tech Spotlight

When Seagate announced they would be releasing a 1.5 terabyte (TB) internal Hard Drive last month, people anticipated that Hard Drives would fall in price.  This is true, although Hard Drives have steadily been dropping in price over the last few years, due to manufacturing costs, demand and in small part to the new Solid State Hard Drives now appearing.

Seagate’s 1.5 TB or 1,500 gigabyte (GB) drive is the largest available now to the consumers at a price point around $349, which is rather expensive.  The second largest or 1 TB drives have now dropped to under $200, and some places you can buy a Samsung or Western Digital Hard Drive for under $150.  500 GB Hard Drives can be bought for as little as $70, which is an absolute fabulous deal.

As I see it, there is no end to this in sight.  The consumers are demanding larger and faster drives to accommodate their vast collections of movies, pictures and music.  There is no telling in 10 years how big Hard Drives might be, possibly 1 petabyte (PB).  I could see it happening, especially with the size of the files for High Definition movies.  In any event, as technology gets better, we the consumers benefit with lower prices.

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