Looks like the old gigabyte era is drowing pretty fast and a new era of terabytes is fast approaching.

In the beginning of this year Seagate had confirmed that it would ship a 1TB hard drive before the 2nd half of this year. Seagate would not confirm or deny the expectation of a new 7200.11 series this morning. But Seagate representatives responded to the inquiries by stressing that they had already stated earlier this year that we would have the 1TB drive before the second half of this year.

Spanish-language site Chilehardware countered Seagate’s announcement with specifications of the 11th generation Seagate Barracuda as follows:
1 Terabyte capacity, 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gbps interface, Perpendicular recording, NCQ, 16MB of buffer with 4 platters and 8 heads.

The shipping date is not yet declared though but it seems like its going to be declared very soon. So far Komag is the only platter manufacturer to announce 1TB designs.