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  • "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December

    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 28 12:51:11 2020
    "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December"

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december

    "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when
    they debut later this year."

    That there is one big hard drive.

    Isn't one of the older file systems limited to 16 TB ? Or am I thinking
    16 PB ?

    Lynn

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  • From Mark Perkins@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 28 17:11:21 2020
    On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:51:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December"

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december

    "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when
    they debut later this year."

    That there is one big hard drive.

    That article had a link to an article from February that teased about the possibility of an 80TB drive. Now we're getting somewhere.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/next-gen-hamr-platters-promise-80tb-hard-drives

    Isn't one of the older file systems limited to 16 TB ? Or am I thinking
    16 PB ?

    You might be thinking of FAT32? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Mark Perkins on Tue Sep 29 14:07:33 2020
    On 9/28/2020 5:11 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
    On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:51:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December"

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december

    "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when
    they debut later this year."

    That there is one big hard drive.

    That article had a link to an article from February that teased about the possibility of an 80TB drive. Now we're getting somewhere.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/next-gen-hamr-platters-promise-80tb-hard-drives

    Isn't one of the older file systems limited to 16 TB ? Or am I thinking
    16 PB ?

    You might be thinking of FAT32? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

    It was one of the Unix or Linux file systems from way back.

    Lynn

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Oct 2 20:52:00 2020
    On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 3:07:37 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 9/28/2020 5:11 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
    On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:51:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail> wrote:

    "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December" >>
    https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december

    "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when
    they debut later this year."

    That there is one big hard drive.

    That article had a link to an article from February that teased about the possibility of an 80TB drive. Now we're getting somewhere.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/next-gen-hamr-platters-promise-80tb-hard-drives

    Isn't one of the older file systems limited to 16 TB ? Or am I thinking >> 16 PB ?

    You might be thinking of FAT32? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

    It was one of the Unix or Linux file systems from way back.

    Lynn

    ext2 with 4k blocksize
    I think ext2 is only used on USB flash drives nowadays

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Oct 3 23:17:41 2020
    [email protected] wrote:
    On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 3:07:37 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 9/28/2020 5:11 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
    On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:51:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail>
    wrote:

    "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December" >> >>
    https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december

    "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when >> >> they debut later this year."

    That there is one big hard drive.

    That article had a link to an article from February that teased about the >> > possibility of an 80TB drive. Now we're getting somewhere.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/next-gen-hamr-platters-promise-80tb-hard-drives >> >
    Isn't one of the older file systems limited to 16 TB ? Or am I thinking >> >> 16 PB ?

    You might be thinking of FAT32?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

    It was one of the Unix or Linux file systems from way back.

    Lynn

    ext2 with 4k blocksize

    But it can have 8k blocksize and go up to 32TB, so that doesn't
    realy mean anything (and also applies to ext3).

    ReiserFS is probaby the one that's limited to 16TB, though now
    there's Reiser4 except that the Linux kernel devs don't want to
    support it, and I'm not sure what its maximum is. https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#What_are_the_specs_for_ReiserFS:_maximum_number_of_files.2C_of_files_a_directory_can_have.2C_of_sub-dirs_in_a_dir.2C_of_links_to_a_file.2C_maximum_file_size.2C_maximum_filesystem_size.2C_etc..3F

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Mon Oct 5 01:39:06 2020
    On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 1:51:15 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December"

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december

    "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when
    they debut later this year."

    20 TB without shingles will be worthwhile to some.
    After some ferreting around, I discovered read/write speed will be 261 MB/s Most 'enterprise' drives are around 250. Seems it will have multi-actuator apparatus that improves serving up small files.

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