May 5, 201016 yr http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/seagate_3tb/ Who's going to fill up all their Pro slots with these??
May 5, 201016 yr Since this is the lounge... I'm glad to see 5x00 RPM drives fall in price to the levels they have... but does it seem like the rate of technology advancement has really slowed over the past few years (even before the recession started) compared to the previous 20 years? I almost would have expected 4TB drives for $200-250 by now... and for 7200 RPM versions too. If things were moving like they were back in the day, you'd be probably also be able to get a top-notch 512GB SSD for around $150 by now. Never mind that the 8GB of RAM I stuck in my unRAID server cost me $90 in February of 2009 and I couldn't touch the exact same stuff for $200 today. On the bright side, this means upgrade cycles are much longer. This makes it feasible to have a couple of workstations, a VMWare server, and an unRAID server, and expect plenty of life out of them. On another note, I read somewhere older BIOSes may have issues with drives larger than 2TB (similar to MPT issues on the OS side)...
May 5, 201016 yr There were talks of mfg roadmaps trying to get 2.5 TB drives out now, followed up with trying to hit 4TB by the end of the year. It's good to see similar news about larger sized drives becoming reality.
May 7, 201016 yr Yeah, yeah, yall quit whining. I remember when I used to pay a fortune for only 128 megs of RAM and my new 80 gig drive wouldn't work on my puter 'cause the bios was too old
May 13, 201016 yr I see that the seagate drive is 6gb SAS so probably going to be expensive for some.
May 17, 201016 yr http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/seagate-confirms-3tb-hard-drive-for-2010-possible-3/ Looks like BIOS and OS changes will be required to support it but hells yes they're coming! Be awhile before I'll need them though, still have two 2TB drives sitting on the shelf with a PCIE adapter to go with...
May 18, 201016 yr This short Ars article claims that we'll need new motherboards to use any hard drives bigger than 2.1TB. Apparently you need a UEFI motherboard, although that might just be if you want to boot off of it. Does anyone know how this will work? I guess I don't go too far out of my way to keep up with what's happening with hard drives and SATA/RAID controllers, etc., but I'm really surprised that this is the first time I've heard about this issue. It looks like I'll be sticking with 2TB drives for quite a while though.
May 18, 201016 yr From what I'm reading, it's only an issue for booting. I think with today's technology, we'll see more and more people move to SSD's for the OS and common programs and these large drives for data storage. After seeing us hit limits over and over again, I'm sure there will be an opportunity for a manufacture to build a controller to get past the limits.
May 19, 201016 yr From what I'm reading, it's only an issue for booting. I think with today's technology, we'll see more and more people move to SSD's for the OS and common programs and these large drives for data storage. +1! I went to SSD for boot, and the performance increase was enormous. A bit of a pain in the ass, space-wise (40GB), but I'll never go back to a platter drive for boot disk.
May 30, 201016 yr Well, the only thing I can see is that SOMETHING's coming or the big drives wouldn't be dropping like redwood trees!
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