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| Thread ID: 118369 | 2011-06-01 10:46:00 | WD releases 4TB drive! | Paul.Cov (425) | PC World Chat |
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| 1206186 | 2011-06-02 01:35:00 | Not actually a 4TB drive though is it, rather 2x 2TB. A single 4TB drive would be much more impressive, as it is, this is just boring. Yea your right. I didn't actually read the article until you posted this but yea it's just an external drive with dual 2TB HDDs so nothing special. These have been available for a long time. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1206187 | 2011-06-02 02:40:00 | Yea your right. I didn't actually read the article until you posted this but yea it's just an external drive with dual 2TB HDDs so nothing special. These have been available for a long time. I couldn't find where it said it was 2x2tb drives. It did say it wasn't compatible with WinXP because of the 2tb limit.:confused: |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1206188 | 2011-06-02 02:45:00 | I couldn't find where it said it was 2x2tb drives. It did say it wasn't compatible with WinXP because of the 2tb limit.:confused: Right near the end: The new My Book Studio Edition II two internal drives.... WD do a 6TB model as well so I assume that has 2x3TB drives in it. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1206189 | 2011-06-02 02:50:00 | Right near the end: The new My Book Studio Edition II two internal drives.... WD do a 6TB model as well so I assume that has 2x3TB drives in it. Yes but that is talking about his internal drives not the external one which is 4TB. He wouldn't say it wouldn't work with XP if it was 2x2TB's. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1206190 | 2011-06-02 03:10:00 | It seems crazy that HDDs are getting this big when it isn't really required by the majority of people. At least 80% of the computers we get in the workshop here don't even have more than about 1/4 to 2/3s of the space used on an 80GB drive. Yes. Unless it's a server or you have a lot of ripped movies - why? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1206191 | 2011-06-02 03:13:00 | Last time I read about large capacity HDD's I thought windows was unable address more than 2tb of space on a single drive, maybe they have patched it :D 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 are able to read and boot from a >3TB drive, if the motherboard uses EFI. IIRC, any OS can use a drive that size for storage only. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1206192 | 2011-06-02 05:44:00 | Yes but that is talking about his internal drives not the external one which is 4TB. He wouldn't say it wouldn't work with XP if it was 2x2TB's. The new My Book Studio Edition II two internal drives can be configured for RAID 0, which affords users the full 4 TB of capacity, or RAID 1, which mirrors the two drives to protect data in case of a drive failure but reduces storage capacity by half. They are a bit confusing when they say "internal drives" but they mean the two drives which are internally inside the My Book. They are two 2TB drives, which can be set in RAID0 or RAID1 depending on your choice. There is no such thing as a single 4TB drive, internal or external of any kind. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1206193 | 2011-06-02 06:31:00 | It seems crazy that HDDs are getting this big when it isn't really required by the majority of people. At least 80% of the computers we get in the workshop here don't even have more than about 1/4 to 2/3s of the space used on an 80GB drive. We get a few that have tons of music and photos so around 100GB used on a 160GB HDD. I used to think that too, before we got a digital camera or three. :blush: Music, photos, videos, photos, recorded programs, photos... they are all massively greedy. :rolleyes: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1206194 | 2011-06-02 08:01:00 | The new My Book Studio Edition II two internal drives can be configured for RAID 0, which affords users the full 4 TB of capacity, or RAID 1, which mirrors the two drives to protect data in case of a drive failure but reduces storage capacity by half. They are a bit confusing when they say "internal drives" but they mean the two drives which are internally inside the My Book. They are two 2TB drives, which can be set in RAID0 or RAID1 depending on your choice. There is no such thing as a single 4TB drive, internal or external of any kind. It was confusing when he said it wasn't compatible with WinXP. I think this (www.snopes.com) rates as the biggest hard drive.:D Samsung have a 4TB prototype. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1206195 | 2011-06-02 20:55:00 | Sounds a lot like single-core vs dual-core CPU. It's no longer just about pure clock speed :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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