Seagate's first 1-terabyte drive to debut this fall

Seagate Technology is serving up its first 1-terabyte hard drive. The company is expected to announce Monday that it will offer a retail hard drive for $399 beginning in the third quarter of this year. The Barracuda 7200.11 will have up to 32 megabytes of cache and a five-year warranty.

The amount of information that can be stored in a 1-terabyte drive is equal to turning 50,000 trees into paper, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. Hitachi shipped its first terabyte drive two months ago, for the same price of $399.

[shoffmueller]

Since when...

.. has "trees-into-paper" been the unit of measure for hard drive capacity?

[ddesy]

Old measurement....

but indirect. People used to compare an amount of storage on a drive to the number of pages of information that could be stored in text format on the drive. Since that number has gotten so large, I guess they've changed to trees instead of pages!

[regulator1956]

Stupid Measurement

Is it 100 trees at 1 point font, single spaced, no margins?<br /><br />Maybe a 100 billion trees at 32 point font, double spaced, 2 inch margins?<br /><br />I didn't know there was a standard for comparing bits to trees.

[alainassaf]

It's Green!!!

Another green-marketing angle. Look at how many trees you save by buying a 1TB hard drive.