"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 ?
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
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
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
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"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."
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