Hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer Seagate unveiled Monday two 1 terabyte storage hard drives aimed at both enterprise and consumers users. The "first second-generation desktop and enterprise" Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 1 HDDs will be available in the third quarter of 2007, the company said.

"The explosive growth of digital content in the home and office is driving demand for massive amounts of hard drive storage," Seagate said. "Businesses and consumers are generating and consuming staggering volumes of digital content -- from high-definition video, music, blogs and podcasts to computer-assisted design (CAD) and other large graphics files, critical business records, archived e-mails and database and file server data."

In producing a terabyte hard drive, the company joins the likes of Hitachi (NYSE: HIT) , which began shipping its supersized HDD in April, and Samsung , which introduced its SpinPoint F1 Series Serial ATA HDD last week.

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Seagate is playing catch up with Hitatchi and Samsung now in terms of capacity and price.

What's really good is that this will drive down the price of 500GB drives, and that means I can build my 3TB RAID5 array cheaper.

What's really good is that this will drive down the price of 500GB drives, and that means I can build my 3TB RAID5 array cheaper.

exactly what i was thinking! i'll probably get a 500gb drive sometime soon. $.24/gb at newegg

I picked up two WD 500GB drives already for a RAID1 array at $120 CAD. Let's just hope that the prices keep coming down!

(Please no this-brand-is-better-than-that-brand discussion. We all have our favorites and our choices)