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what is the next capacity stopping point
Now that we have a jumping point to get more than
2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? Thanks, Lynn |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
Lynn McGuire wrote:
Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. There will be a LBA48 linit at 1EB, assuming 4096k sectors. It affects (S)ATA deives. SCSI (and hence USB storage) is good for 64ZB with 4K sectors. The latter is also the limit on GPT with 4k sectors. Other limits are pure filesystem-limits, but given the stupidity we have seen from Microsoft in the past, they doubtlessly have some other limits in there somewhere. Arno |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
On 9/24/2013 5:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. Well, we will never need a drive capacity of 16 billion gigabytes. Right? Lynn |
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On 9/24/2013 5:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. BTW, Thanks! Lynn |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
Lynn McGuire wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: Lynn McGuire wrote: Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. Well, we will never need a drive capacity of 16 billion gigabytes. Right? Well, if the sales folks have their way, all of us just must have in-cloud storage of, ahem, unlimited capacity (providing we can fork out the money for all of it). As what was once sci-fi is being researched (started 10 years ago): holographic storage. See: http://www.colossalstorage.net/3d_holo.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage So big, really big, file systems may be needed and not that many years from now (well, in maybe a decade). |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
On 09/25/13 03:39 pm, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/24/2013 5:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Lynn McGuire wrote: Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. Well, we will never need a drive capacity of 16 billion gigabytes. Right? I may never live long enough to need 16 billion Gigabytes of disk space, but maybe in a generation or two.... My first computer (an Osborne 1) had 64K of RAM and two 92K floppy drives, and when I saw an outboard 5MB hard-drive box for it I thought, "If only I could afford one of those, I'd never need to buy any more floppies"!!! Whatever you consider to be a reasonable amount of storage, somebody will come up with programs that need twice as much. Think of Parkinson's Law, rewritten for computing: "Programs and their data expand to fill completely the space available for their storage." Perce |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/24/2013 5:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Lynn McGuire wrote: Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? 16 exabytes That's the NTFS theoretical limit (not a lower limit that may be imposed within the Windows). You never mentioned a file system. exFAT and other file systems have different limits. Well, we will never need a drive capacity of 16 billion gigabytes. Right? Lynn Not for any current applications, that is for sure. I mean, what do ordinary people evenneed 3TB for, if not video? And you can already get a few 100 hours in good wuality on one. But I am sure the industry will find some content for that in the time of our children (or later). Arno |
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Arno wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: Well, we will never need a drive capacity of 16 billion gigabytes. Right? Not for any current applications, that is for sure. I mean, what do ordinary people evenneed 3TB for, if not video? And you can already get a few 100 hours in good wuality on one. But I am sure the industry will find some content for that in the time of our children (or later). The NSA can always use more storage... They'll juste rotate the captures less frequently. |
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what is the next capacity stopping point
On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:29:30 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Now that we have a jumping point to get more than 2 TB in a single drive, what is the next limit of capacity in hard drives? Are you talking about hardware-technology limits? 3.5" drives are at a plateau of approx 4 TB. If HAMR gets off the ground, we could at least double that. Maybe 10 x eventually, so 40 TB drives. Hopefully, SATA transfer rates also double, quadruple by then. |
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