Seagate Has the First 1.5TB Hard Drives

If your MP3 and downloaded video collection has outgrown its storage media, you will be thrilled to note that Seagate has won the manufacturer’s race by being the first to announce a 1.5 terabyte hard drive. The huge Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 will use four platters and should be in stores in August.

This makes me feel old. The first hard drive I ever saw had a capacity of only twenty megabytes. At the time, we were thrilled by its size and judged it by the number of 5 1/4 inch floppy disks it could digest. When I first got an Internet connection you would get flamed for having an e-mail signature longer than six lines because it “wasted bandwidth”. Now, everyone transfers full motion video files without giving it any thought. How times change.