Samsung, Seagate Shipping 1 TB Hard Drives

The gents at DailyTech let us know that both Samsung and Seagate have begun shipping their 1 terabyte drives. Of course, Hitachi was the first out the door when they shipped their drives earlier this year, but what’s impressive are the specs of these new ones.

While the Hitatchi sticks to five platters at 200GB each, Seagates uses four platters at 250GB while Samsung uses three at 334GB. Seagate has been the king of disk storage for a while, but Samsung seems to have taken the lead. As far as pricing goes, they should all cost roughly the same when they finally hit your favorite e-tailer.

Six months ago Seagate confirmed it would launch a 1TB Barracuda hard disk drive in 2007. Seagate was the first to officially unveil a 1TB desktop drive after taking first place with the 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda. However, Hitachi announced its 1TB offering only minutes after Seagate’s announcement in January and took advantage of a head start by bringing its product to the market earlier.

Source: Daily Tech