I said it would happen by the end of 2006. Cut me some slack, I was only off by five days. Here’s a 1TB hard drive for only $400.
About Michael
Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Nebraska and has been training librarians in technology for more than 15 years. He has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael’s tenth book, Blogging & RSS: A Librarian’s Guide, Second Edition was published October 2010 with three more books to be published in 2012. He has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs Web sites for authors and historical societies, takes many, many photos, and reads more than 100 books a year.
Michael,
Well, we were both actually three months off: If you read the release, the Hitachi won’t go on sale until the end of March. (Note the “both”–I agreed with your prediction.)
I wonder whether Seagate will push to get its 1TB drive on the market earlier?
Yep, I should have read a little closer.