Want ' BIG ' Storage

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

WD has some ' BIG ' Hard Drives on the way......

http://news.filehippo.com/2014/09/18935/

I wonder if ' Windows 7 / Windows 8 will ' recognize such large storage devices....... ( most likely ... or Microsoft will offer a ' patch ' )

Partitioning such drives might get around that issue

Imagine how long it would take to ' format ' one of these.

Come in handy for NAS or Media Servers.....

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

WD has some ' BIG ' Hard Drives on the way......

http://news.filehippo.com/2014/09/18935/

I wonder if ' Windows 7 / Windows 8 will ' recognize such large storage devices....... ( most likely ... or Microsoft will offer a ' patch ' )

Partitioning such drives might get around that issue

Imagine how long it would take to ' format ' one of these.

Come in handy for NAS or Media Servers.....

According to M$ for disks bigger than 2TB, the O/S has to support GPT format partition tables. The system has to have a UEFI boot ROM if you want to boot from the disk.

GPT works in Vista, Win7 and above, Server 2008 and above and supports disks up to 9.4ZB. That's 9.4e15 bytes. ZB=zetabytes.

I wonder if Synology would support them in its NAS boxes? 6x10TB would give me something between 45 and 50TB. Mine's currently got 2TB disks formatted as 1 RAID5 volume.

[algwat (Alan)]

Always wanted a 10TB system, but a few more cores would be better.
Keep an eye on these guys, 16/64 cores and more, just via usb.

http://www.adapteva.com/

kind regards, alan.

[Cameron (Cameron Roberts)]

I honestly don't think there's going to be very much of an issue. If hard drives improve their storage capability, software will just have to catch up, and they have been so far haven't they? I really don't think it was that long ago when we jumped from the MB to the GB and then to the TB. Technology will find a way!!

[The_bluester (Paul)]

i am just itching for SSD to catch up to what I reckon is the current NAS sweet spot of about 4TB per drive. I have an 8 bay NAS with 4 X 4TB drives in a single RAID5 array for general storage, and I don't expect to fill it any time particularly soon, there is a single 3TB used as a disaster drive so in the case of another bushfire or similar issue we can just hot unplug the 3TB and make off with our critical data under our arm. Yet to work out a good offsite plan as well though.

When I got this NAS a few months ago (Which replaced a 4 bay job) the 6TB-He drives were just popping up.