what is the next drive limit

We have had several drive addressability limits in the last 35 years. The last was at 2 TB ???

So, what is the next drive limit?

Thanks,
Lynn

Lynn McGuire wrote:

We have had several drive addressability limits in the last 35 years.
The last was at 2 TB ???

So, what is the next drive limit?

I think it will be 16 exabytes assuming Microsoft is still using NTFS by
then. Of course, you are totally ignoring the use of RAID to expand
volumes by adding however many devices are needed. You omitted RAID in
your analysis of the 12 TB external drive in your prior post.

Some of those storage boundaries you include where not all due to
manufacturing restrictions of storage devices. Some where file system
limitations. Some where BIOS limitations.

In many cases, the storage boundary doesn't get pushed until there is a
substantial market pressure to qualify producing the larger drives.
Often a product is introduced but is too high for consumers. Not until
a sweet spot is hit with pricing where consumers then adopt en masse do
those products go into mainline production.

Just because a technology appears that can up storage capacity doesn't
mean it is a survivable technology. Remember bubble memory?

Lynn McGuire wrote:
We have had several drive addressability limits in the last 35 years. The last was at 2 TB ???

So, what is the next drive limit?

Thanks,
Lynn

As even ATA moved to 48 bit sector addresses and modern OSes use
64 bit byte offsets, it should be quite some way in the future.
Possibly a filesystem size limit though, not a drive limie.

Arno