Funny. I discovered this article while trying to research why there's been almost no significant increase in size for laptop hard drives -- and when I read this article and how they're "making leaps and bounds" in size, well, that left me completely dumbstruck, as it couldn't be further from reality, IMHO. It's been TWO YEARS since I upgraded my laptop to a 750Gb/7200rpm drive... and since then, the only larger capacity HD was a 1Tb/5200rpm drive that was released quite awhile back. Other World Computing just recently (2013) listed a 1.5Tb 5200rpm drive, but until I read about some positive test results, and that more than one manufacturer is making one, I'm holding off even though I desperately need a HD upgrade.
But good grief, leaps and bounds? There's been loads of 500Gb drives available for FIVE years now, and like I mentioned, it's been TWO years since I bought my 750Gb drive, with nothing new since (other than the one I found on OWC, that's 1.5Tb). So I ask, where's all this progress? It plainly does NOT exist, period.
In the 25-odd years I've had PC's, I've never seen a more sluggish market when it comes to hard drive capacity, especially these past five years. In 2007 I bought a 2.5mm 500Gb/5200 drive, and a couple more since '07, so all I have to say is where's all the bigger HD's if so much progress is being made by leaps and bounds? Maybe this is some kind of market ploy to force people to buy SSD's, while a person needs a 2nd mortgage to buy one that's of any decent size.
I've been feeling totally stumped about how nearly NO significant size increases have taken place in two years time, and now I'm really stumped having read this article that seems to have been authored by Rip Van Winkle...