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Originally Posted by 709
FWIW, Seagate's got a 5400RPM drive at 120GB. |
I wonder if that item is "temporarily sold out" or "in our store because the product was officially announced and launched but Seagate hasn't actually made more than sixteen of them yet."
Laptop storage has been really slow to develop. The largest size you can actually buy is 100 GB (120 GB on paper). The first 80 GB laptop drive came out in mid-2003, while the first 60 GB one came out sometime in mid-2002 (the April 2002 PowerBooks didn't have a 60 GB drive available, but the November 2002 ones did). Going back a little further, the previous largest laptop drive was a 48 GB from sometime in early to mid-2001.
So laptop drives aren't doubling every year, not by a long shot. It took about three years for them to double in capacity from 48 GB to 100 GB.