Back in April I predicted that by the end of the year 1TB drives would be “commercially available to the public at a reasonable price” ($500 or less) by the end of the year. Well, here it is just four months later and I’ve found the Beyond Micro DriveZilla 1TB Terabyte USB 2.0 External Storage Center (Drives included) BMDZ1TU2 at TigerDirect.com for just $499.99 (after a $100 mail-in rebate). It’s not a 1TB drive but a collection of four 250GB drives. It’s not exactly what I predicted but it is 1TB of storage for less than $500. My birthday is coming up for those that want to see me happy. 😉
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Prediction comes true closer to being true”
Well…no.
I think your prediction is probably right, but the link you provide isn’t it.
That’s not a one terabyte drive. It’s four 250GB drives in a box. It’s a great price, but it’s an array, not a drive. (I’m not real fond of TigerDirect, and I’d wonder whose 250GB drives those are, but those are different issues.)
(Is the first consumer 1TB drive on the market yet? I’ve heard of 750GB drives, but… And the first drive will carry a tiny premium, I’d guess $600 for an internal drive, $700 for an external. But by December, yes, I think your prediction is highly probable.)
Well…no.
I think your prediction is probably right, but the link you provide isn’t it.
That’s not a one terabyte drive. It’s four 250GB drives in a box. It’s a great price, but it’s an array, not a drive. (I’m not real fond of TigerDirect, and I’d wonder whose 250GB drives those are, but those are different issues.)
(Is the first consumer 1TB drive on the market yet? I’ve heard of 750GB drives, but… And the first drive will carry a tiny premium, I’d guess $600 for an internal drive, $700 for an external. But by December, yes, I think your prediction is highly probable.)