Seagate confirms a 3TB drive

Big storage just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Seagate has confirmed that it has a 3 Terabyte hard drive in the offing, however you are cautioned that you can't run out and buy it just yet.

In a call, a spokesperson from the firm told us, "We are planning a 3TB drive towards the end of this year. But the more important issue is the 2.1TB drive."

And why is that 2.1TB drive so important? Well, the same spokesperson told us that current Windows operating systems can only read that model, thereby making the 3TB drive look like 'too much, too soon'.

Currently Windows XP can handle a maximum of 2.1TB of disk space, and other versions of the Windows OS including Windows 7 are likely to throw up at the sight of the larger hard drive.

For now you shouldn't try to boot from the 3TB drive, despite the fact that it supports logical block address (LBA).

If you want to start saving for an upgrade, Seagate is recommending that users have a PC with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, as opposed to the legacy PC BIOS. Alternatively you can connect the monster drive to a RAID controller or host bus adapter. Or buy a couple of smaller ones instead.

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4 Comments

cyb3rspy May 19, 2010 12:43 PM	I'm gonna need a few of these, well since we are running out of IP addresses I'm gonna need to start backing up the internet. :-)
SceptreCore May 19, 2010 2:33 PM	Ha! My largest hard drive is a 0.5TB widely available SATAIII drives could not come sooner.
meniac May 19, 2010 3:40 PM	cyb3rspy "I'm gonna need a few of these,"... I think that you will need more than a few. Then you need storage for backing up your back up (RAID ???). cyb3rspy..." well since we are running out of IP addresses I'm gonna need to start backing up the internet. :-)" Haven't you heard of IPv6..You can do it !!!
nicknet May 21, 2010 1:37 PM	I worry when I see the word "raid" and "backup" in the same line. I don't think you meant it in that sence though meniac? GPT ftw My smallest drive is .5tb :\| (I don't think my 64gb corsair flash counts does it?)

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