HGST may have beaten them to the punch, but Maxtor today announced their 500GB hard drive. Set to be released in the third quarter of this year, the drives will supposedly be offered in all of their existing product lines (such as the OneTouch external drives, DiamondMax, and so on). They haven’t said anything about cache yet, but we’d expect at least 16MB on the SATA model like the Hitachi offering. Too bad laptop hard drives are so far behind.
Press Release [Maxtor]
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