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<blockquote data-quote="eldoen" data-source="post: 649384" data-attributes="member: 3891">Well, won't go into the how I knows just to say that I work in the industry.But from info that I have read, 1 and 2 terabyte drives should be a reality in 2004.&nbsp; But lets do a run down of the computer industry over the next 2 to 3 years.&nbsp; PCI express will be out in mid to late 2003. which will take the PCI bus speed to new areas. Unfortantly I don't think it will be until version 2. that a real gain will be seen.&nbsp; But a 1 x path is 2.1 gb/s and a 16 x bath is something like 32 gb/s&nbsp; the 16x path will replace agp 8x technologies. Sata 1 (at 150 MB/s) is out now.&nbsp; Sata II phase one is or currently will be released which will bring in some newer technologies that the enterprises need. but in 2004 sata II phase 2 with the speed increase and more than likely the Serial Attached Scsi specs will be alligned. we will be at 300 MB/s Considering that most drives made today barely can use the 66 MB/s spec it will be interesting to see what hard drive manus do to&nbsp; actually start using that additional bandwidth provided to them.&nbsp; As a for sure it will need to have that bandwidth for the 1 and 2 terabyte drives.Now comes the interesting issue.&nbsp; Win 32 can only support up to 2.2 terabytes on a single drive with 512 byte sectors.&nbsp; So that leads us to 64 bit Systems<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Yes I agree that the PC will be radically changing in the coming years.&nbsp; PCI Express allows for a radical design change to occur because the bus can be up to 3 meters away from the cpu.&nbsp; Sata and SAS introduce new concepts for Drive connections.&nbsp; and the coming PCI bus change over and other technologies that it appears that the industry will agree on up front instead of the many different busses during the old PC bus to eventually PCI bus change over days.&nbsp; Now if they can come up with a radical Memory update it will be all set<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; El</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eldoen, post: 649384, member: 3891"] Well, won't go into the how I knows just to say that I work in the industry. But from info that I have read, 1 and 2 terabyte drives should be a reality in 2004. But lets do a run down of the computer industry over the next 2 to 3 years. PCI express will be out in mid to late 2003. which will take the PCI bus speed to new areas. Unfortantly I don't think it will be until version 2. that a real gain will be seen. But a 1 x path is 2.1 gb/s and a 16 x bath is something like 32 gb/s the 16x path will replace agp 8x technologies. Sata 1 (at 150 MB/s) is out now. Sata II phase one is or currently will be released which will bring in some newer technologies that the enterprises need. but in 2004 sata II phase 2 with the speed increase and more than likely the Serial Attached Scsi specs will be alligned. we will be at 300 MB/s Considering that most drives made today barely can use the 66 MB/s spec it will be interesting to see what hard drive manus do to actually start using that additional bandwidth provided to them. As a for sure it will need to have that bandwidth for the 1 and 2 terabyte drives. Now comes the interesting issue. Win 32 can only support up to 2.2 terabytes on a single drive with 512 byte sectors. So that leads us to 64 bit Systems:) Yes I agree that the PC will be radically changing in the coming years. PCI Express allows for a radical design change to occur because the bus can be up to 3 meters away from the cpu. Sata and SAS introduce new concepts for Drive connections. and the coming PCI bus change over and other technologies that it appears that the industry will agree on up front instead of the many different busses during the old PC bus to eventually PCI bus change over days. Now if they can come up with a radical Memory update it will be all set;) El [/QUOTE]

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