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| Thread ID: 111215 | 2010-07-18 10:19:00 | Seagate releases 3TB drive | Paul.Cov (425) | Press F1 |
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| 1119923 | 2010-07-19 12:30:00 | Finally, this should improve the prices of the smaller drives some more.... Who would want to boot from a 3TB drive anyway? My boot drive is only 250GB... As long as I can use a 3TB+ for storage, I don't care. I doubt I'll ever want a boot drive over 500GB anyway. Let's hope they learn from their mistakes and set the next limit to something a bit more sensible... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119924 | 2010-07-19 14:29:00 | Finally, this should improve the prices of the smaller drives some more.... Who would want to boot from a 3TB drive anyway? My boot drive is only 250GB... As long as I can use a 3TB+ for storage, I don't care. I doubt I'll ever want a boot drive over 500GB anyway. Let's hope they learn from their mistakes and set the next limit to something a bit more sensible... If they did set the limit in the DOS days in pretty sure that 2.1TB seemed like a 'sensible' amount lol. |
Fifthdawn (9467) | ||
| 1119925 | 2010-07-19 14:53:00 | If they did set the limit in the DOS days in pretty sure that 2.1TB seemed like a 'sensible' amount lol. And 640 Kb of RAM was enough once. Bill said so. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1119926 | 2010-07-19 23:57:00 | Yeah, but now that we know that it wasn't sensible, we must make sure to make the next limit something which seems complete overkill | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119927 | 2010-07-20 00:19:00 | you can boot from a 3tb HDD with both 32 and 64bit versions of Win7 | GreacherTech (15784) | ||
| 1119928 | 2010-07-20 00:59:00 | you can boot from a 3tb HDD with both 32 and 64bit versions of Win7 But you will still need a motherboard which uses EFI |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119929 | 2010-07-20 02:09:00 | But you will still need a motherboard which uses EFI True, but come on EFI v2.1 was released in 2007 if you're going to go and out by a 3TB HDD then you can afford to have a halfway decent mobo |
GreacherTech (15784) | ||
| 1119930 | 2010-07-20 02:48:00 | Microsoft says this about sizes: The maximum partition (and disk) size is a function of the operating system version. Windows XP and the original release of Windows Server 2003 have a limit of 2TB per physical disk, including all partitions. For Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows XP x64 edition, and later versions, the maximum raw partition of 18 exabytes can be supported. (Windows file systems currently are limited to 256 terabytes each.) I wonder what 7 x64 can handle. How much are these HDDs going for? |
Cellux (15145) | ||
| 1119931 | 2010-07-20 02:58:00 | I wonder what 7 x64 can handle. 256TB maximum partition size, 18EB maximum physical drive size. Providing your hardware can support it. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1119932 | 2010-07-20 04:19:00 | What? They should have made it 1024YB or something... that would surely last for a very very long time | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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