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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. So maybe they could by mysidia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Design a SATA controller that allows one physical 4.2TB drive to be presented as two 2.1TB disks, behind a SATA port multiplier.

    Then it's simple... plug your HD in... OS sees two drives, but you have 4TB of storage, once your volume manager does its thing and carves a single 4TB volume out of two LUNs.