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Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the remember-when-20meg-was-infinity dept.

Stoobalou writes "After a few weeks of rumours, Seagate's senior product manager Barbara Craig has confirmed that the company is announcing a 3TB drive later this year, but the move to 3TB of storage space apparently involves a lot more work than simply upping the areal density. The ancient foundations of the PC's three-decade legacy has once again reared its DOS-era head, revealing that many of today's PCs are simply incapable of coping with hard drives that have a larger capacity than 2.1TB."

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  1. Microsoft is overjoyed by macraig · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft is positively giddy with its anticipation of this turnover, since it will finally force those stubborn Windows XP 32-bit holdouts to tuck their tails and fork over the bucks for Windows 7. Microsoft chose not to release patches that would update the filesystem of XP 32-bit to recognize GPT disks; that capability, much like RAM greater than 4GB, is arbitrarily restricted by license to XP 64-bit, Windows Server, and later releases.

  2. Re:I wonder by tverbeek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're only being ripped off if you're brain-damaged enough to actually think that 1"TB"=2^40Bytes. Everyone who understands these units at all understands that in this context, 1TB=1000GB, 1GB=1000MB (and so on). The only people who find it confusing are some high-functioning autistics who can't let go of a standard that the industry has long since abandoned. They sound like an elderly Briton insisting that the pound sterling is worth 20 shillings, not 100 pence!

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  3. Re:Please stop the capacity race... by Slashcrap · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and make *reliable* drives. I've had 2 500GB and a 320 GB Seagates die, a 1TB Hitachi is beginning to act on its own, so far the only drives I have that seem to work OK are WD (Green, in the PVR). Seagate has a long history of having problems (firmware, hardware) since they bought Maxtor. Give me a reliable 1-2 TB drive instead. So far WD are the only drives that didn't die here.

    You may as well stick your fucking anecdotes right up your ass, because I can assure you that nobody fucking cares. Random Slashdot faggot with 2(!) home computers says WD/Hitachi/IBM/Seagate/Whatever make the best drives, news at 11.