Seagate Releases 1.5TB Hard Drive

Today Seagate announced their new Barracuda 1.5TB hard drive due out in August. Yes, that's 1,500 GB of data on one hard drive spinning around at 7,200 RPM.

As part of the marketing spiel Seagate pronounced that the jump from 1TB to 1.5TB is the "largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives.". Of course they can pretty much say that each time a new drive comes out.

You can be assured these things will be far from cheap but maybe now the price of those tiny 1TB drives might drop.

AMD's Turn To Do Flashy Graphics

Hot on the heels of Intel's real time ray tracing efforts yesterday, AMD has come out with their "Cinema 2.0" cinema quality real-time rendering and marketing blarg. It looks pretty sweet (although that metal beasty looks kinda like a certain "dog" from Half-Life 2) but seriously, get the marketing guys down out of the clouds. Check out the depressingly compressed video over at Engadget and make up your own mind.

The big difference between this demo and Intel's is that it's running on (almost) freely available hardware. That is, "a single PC loaded with a pair of (future) consumer-grade AMD RV770 graphics cards, Phenom X4 9850 processor, and 790FX chipset."