Man they’re certainly packing them in these days. What am I talking about? Hard drives of course. Seagate announced earlier this week that  they had begun worldwide volume shipments of the industry’s first 250GB PER DISC, 3.5 inch disc drive – thanks to it’s second generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology. Yup.. that’s a lot of storage space on a single platter (or as Seagate puts it, it boils down to 180 Gbits per square inch). I think I still have a 3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppy disc somewhere here at home!

So where exactly are you going to see these new hard drives? Seagate plans on rolling them into the latest Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 1 terabyte drive (their webpage still shows a max of 750GB) which utilizes a fast SATA 3Gb/s interface. Very exciting stuff folks – especially for home theater PC enthusiasts. Think of that HTPC with a single hard drive capable of storing a full terabyte of videos and television shows. Awesome stuff.

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