Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig confirmed rumours that the company will be releasing a monster 3TB drive later this year. That’s a lot of disk space! But sorry XP users, the drive will require a 64-bit OS.
The 3TB jump isn’t coming without its difficulties – the current LBA (logical block addressing) standard, set in the storage space Stone Age of 1980, only supports capacities up to 2.1TB. Craig said that the drive’s full, awesome power will only be accessible with 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista as well as some modified versions of Linux.
Thinq’s talk with Craig spells out the various technological challenges of creating so massive a drive in greater detail, but I applaud Seagate’s determination to go big rather than going home. Craig only said to expect an announcement “later this year,” which should give you plenty of time to start hoarding any and every file you can find. [Thinq]
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Greg
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 9:44 AMI think you meant “sorry Windows 2000 users”… XP 64 bit will do just fine (if you must use XP).
Adammm81
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 1:41 PMAlso left out Macs, as well as Server OS’s – rather misleading article.. just say you need 64 bit and be done with it.
Lachlan Heywood
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 10:58 PMAgreed. Any 64 bit version of linux will support it. no need to ‘modify’ anything. Ubuntu comes in a 64 bit version standard.
Glenn Taylor
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 11:20 AMI feel sorry for anyone using XP 64-bit… that OS is hopeless.