Is it just me, or has it been an awfully long time since HD's went up in size?

[Paul F.]

Been thinking about buying a new backup drive for a server here at work... and I notice that the same 2Tb drive I bought back in January is still the "biggest" drive going. It's almost $50 cheaper now, but drive sizes seem to have peaked at 2Tb for now?

I'm wondering if we're going to see 2.5Tb or 3Tb drives come out, or if we're technologically stalled at 2Tb, and SSD's are going to rise from the muck, double in size every 4 months, and be at 3Tb in 2 years?

[MGS_forgot_password]

we're technologically stalled at 2Tb wrote:

NTFS on 32-bit Windows.

[Paul F.]

And for those of us undercaffeinated this morning, what about "NTFS on 32-bit Windows" ?

[Mac1337]

The more space the more junk you accumulate.I learned that from adding more shelf space.

[macbeergeek2]

MGS_forgot_password wrote:
[quote=we're technologically stalled at 2Tb]

NTFS on 32-bit Windows.
Hard drive manufacturers are limiting the capacity of their products based on this?

[macbeergeek2]

Dakota wrote:
The more space the more junk you accumulate.I learned that from adding more shelf space.

:agree:

[M A V I C]

There's another issue as well. SATA drives are commonly specified with an unrecoverable read error rate (URE) of 10^14. Which means that once every 100,000,000,000,000 bits, the disk will very politely tell you that, so sorry, but I really, truly can’t read that sector back to you.

One hundred trillion bits is about 12 terabytes.

So pop 4 3TB drives into a Drobo, and you've got a 100% chance of that happening.

[Gareth]

Seagate is currently selling a 3TB drive, but that just means that 2TB is now the sweet spot in terms of price & size.

[silvarios]

MBR is limited to 2TB I believe. Bigger drives aren't Bootable. GPT is needed, which requires EFI (I think).

[bazookaman]

silvarios wrote:
MBR is limited to 2TB I believe. Bigger drives aren't Bootable. GPT is needed, which requires EFI (I think).

WTF?