Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive

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."

Comments

does it work with Windows 98?

[alen]

i have to know because i have a Win98 PC that i use to play some old games and i wanted to upgrade it

Re:does it work with Windows 98?

[aardwolf64]

I think you could probably install EVERY game from the 90s on that hard drive and still have 2.09 TB left over. :-)

Re:3TB - that's all you'll ever need!

[The MAZZTer]

Yes, "documents".

Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors

[maxume]

Yeah, you would only be able to store 800 million of your oddly small files on this new drive. What a disaster.

Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors

[twidarkling]

Seriously? If you've got a 3TB drive, are you seriously suggesting a person be counting wasted bytes? You lose more space than what you're suggesting just in the conversion from "vendor measurement" to "OS measurement" of space on the disk.

Re:Mac OS X

[M8e]

Some dude had to buy a perfectly good Mac G4, just because Apple stopped supporting it, and its ancient Safari 2 browser could no longer render the web properly.

Re:How long can the growth last?

[gemada]

as long as there is porn, the growth will continue (pun intended)