I have just noticed the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard disk drives have been added to OcUK’s store. These are among the first hard disk drives to utilise perpendicular recording technology allowing for larger capacity platters. The range topper from Seagate’s 7200.10 series is a breathtaking 750GB, from a previous industry high of 500GB.

This is quite a jump in capacity and excuses the seemingly stagnant nature of the hard drive storage market over the last few years. Needless to say, I am now after a couple of the 320GB drives for Kryten to run in a RAID 1 configuration.

I have being playing with the Ubuntu linux distribution which I am tempted to run on Kryten in place of Windows XP Pro. The drives as well as Ubuntu should make a nice responsive and secure web/database/print/file server for our home network.

Another advancement in the storage field as reported by The Register claims to be capable of storing 12.8m GB (notice the m) in a cubic centrimetre of ferroelectric memory. Now this would really blow current storage capacities out of the window! I’m thinking it may be 2015 before we see this type of storage in products coming to market.