I rarely make predictions but I’ve been making this one to myself for a few months now and I think an article about a 750GB hard drive for only $590 makes me feel safe enough to put this one to print. One terabyte hard drives will be commercially available to the public at a reasonable price by the end of 2006.
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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3 Replies to “Prediction”
If by “reasonable” you mean “no more than $800 internal, no more than $1000 external,” I think you’ve got a pretty safe prediction. (Since the end of 2006 is eight months away, giving enough time for WD and Seagate both to get in the market, I’d actually guess more like $500/$600, but I’m even more reluctant to make predictions than you are.)
I’d say your figures fall into my definition of reasonable. I’d realy like to see $500 for internal though. And, as you said, if we get come competition to happen, its very possible.
I'd say your figures fall into my definition of reasonable. I'd realy like to see $500 for internal though. And, as you said, if we get come competition to happen, its very possible.
If by “reasonable” you mean “no more than $800 internal, no more than $1000 external,” I think you’ve got a pretty safe prediction. (Since the end of 2006 is eight months away, giving enough time for WD and Seagate both to get in the market, I’d actually guess more like $500/$600, but I’m even more reluctant to make predictions than you are.)
I’d say your figures fall into my definition of reasonable. I’d realy like to see $500 for internal though. And, as you said, if we get come competition to happen, its very possible.
I'd say your figures fall into my definition of reasonable. I'd realy like to see $500 for internal though. And, as you said, if we get come competition to happen, its very possible.
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