TDK roadmap suggests 2.5TB HDDs are just around the corner

[XS Janus]

$500 at least!

[RPGWiZaRD]

Doubt it, I'd say $250~$299 for 2.5TB and $350(~+$20) for 3TB. Normal "entry-level" 2TB disks are around $180 atm, as usual all new things have to fit into the already consisting price range of the rest, yes the big HDDs usually come with a price premium but I already took that into account if comparing to $180 2TB drives.

[lowfat]

So partition the drive for a nippy ~80GB Windows drive and the rest as storage

Won't work. In order to Windows to see >2TB you need to use a GUID partition table (GPT). Windows cannot boot off w/o using an EFI system. It has nothing to do w/ partition sizes.

If you use MBR you are going to be limited to 2TB.

[The_Beast]

Very nice, I always like seeing big HDDs, better for me buying the smaller drives (1tb hehe)

[[XC] Oj101]

Won't work. In order to Windows to see >2TB you need to use a GUID partition table (GPT). Windows cannot boot off w/o using an EFI system. It has nothing to do w/ partition sizes.

If you use MBR you are going to be limited to 2TB.

Please do explain? Is this not like the 2GB/4GB limit of FAT16 where dividing it up would allow you to use the full drive?

[lowfat]

Please do explain? Is this not like the 2GB/4GB limit of FAT16 where dividing it up would allow you to use the full drive?

No. It has nothing to do w/ the partition itself. But the partition table. Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables have a limitation of 2TB. Any driver over that size and it will only be able to partition the 2TB of it.

GUID Partition Table (GPT) doesn't have this limitation. However only systems w/ EFI will be able to boot from a hard drive w/ GPT partitioning. So unless you have a Mac you won't be able to do it currently.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Pa...support_of_GPT

[FischOderAal]

also 750GB & 1TB 2.5" has been around for a few months already..

2.5 inches is easier. You have to be able to read the data on the farthest edge as well Additionally most 2.5 inch drives are 5.400 rpm or even slower.

TDK makes hard drives?

I wondered the same oO

[zalbard]

I wondered the same oO

The very first line of the article...

Hard drive head manufacturer TDK

[FischOderAal]

'Doh. Me reading = fail But at least I got something else to blame! #cheers

[ripken204]

No. It has nothing to do w/ the partition itself. But the partition table. Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables have a limitation of 2TB. Any driver over that size and it will only be able to partition the 2TB of it.

GUID Partition Table (GPT) doesn't have this limitation. However only systems w/ EFI will be able to boot from a hard drive w/ GPT partitioning. So unless you have a Mac you won't be able to do it currently.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Pa...support_of_GPT

oh the issue i was having with that when i was trying to set up my 8GB+ raid array. using a 2.5-3TB drive for storage and OS seems a bit silly though. unless for some reason you can only have 1 hdd in your pc, i see no point in it.

[zanzabar]

No. It has nothing to do w/ the partition itself. But the partition table. Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables have a limitation of 2TB. Any driver over that size and it will only be able to partition the 2TB of it.

GUID Partition Table (GPT) doesn't have this limitation. However only systems w/ EFI will be able to boot from a hard drive w/ GPT partitioning. So unless you have a Mac you won't be able to do it currently.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Pa...support_of_GPT

msi and super micro have efi boards, and u can make a raid partition for your OS then the rest for data, its not like any sane person would have a 2TB+ OS partition

[Darakian]

I wondered the same oO

So everyone is discussing a road map for a non existent product line....

[Sn0wm@n]

So everyone is discussing a road map for a non existent product line....

roadmaps are there to show people whats comming in a near future....

[jcool]

+1 - I hate this .5TB bulldust

also 750GB & 1TB 2.5" has been around for a few months already..

What? Where? I know there are 750GB ones (I have one), but 1TB? Don't see any @ my distro's...

[tiro_uspsss]

What? Where? I know there are 750GB ones (I have one), but 1TB? Don't see any @ my distro's...

ah yes, well theres where the 'hate' comes in toward WD - announced last year, but availability? rarer than chooks teeth

[ExodusC]

+1 - I hate this .5TB bulldust

also 750GB & 1TB 2.5" has been around for a few months already..

I for one like the ".5 TB" sizes, as I'm OCD and like to have over a terabyte of actual available space when I buy a drive that is supposed to be 1TB or larger. I suppose that didn't stop me from buying the 1TB WD Green though...

[Darakian]

roadmaps are there to show people whats comming in a near future....

From a company that doesn't even make hard drives. Right. TDK is going to just spawn these things from another plane.

[saint-francis]

From a company that doesn't even make hard drives. Right. TDK is going to just spawn these things from another plane.

Did you read the opening post?

Hard drive head manufacturer TDK

This has been covered already in this thread.

[Darakian]

Did you read the opening post?



This has been covered already in this thread.

My bad, missed the word "head". I still question this, but at least it makes a bit more sense now :p

[The Coolest]

This limitation only happens if the sector size stays at the current 512 bytes.
2^32 * 512 = 2TB (the MBR limit).
If they increase the sector size to 4KB (4096) bytes, overall HDD size limit would become 8 times bigger - 16TB.
Or am I missing something?