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<blockquote data-quote="TeeSeeJay" data-source="post: 712813" data-attributes="member: 9969">This is all true. However, if you spend enough money, SCSI and RAID become simpler than IDE. No jumpers, no ribbon cables. Creating a RAID3/5 stripe set is just running a wizard.Back to the question of the 1 Terabyte drive. I'd bet a dollar that if it were released today, it wouldn't work in any of our computers. Why? Too many shortcuts got us where we are today. Technically, there shouldn't be a problem. We can do huge partitions -- and even if we couldn't, there's always multiple partitions. But any number of potential roadblocks exist:1. BIOS incompatibility. Anyone remember the 540MB limit? You needed a BIOS upgrade or a disk management overlay to get around the hardware limitation.2. Remember the 640k limit? It gave us Low, high, expanded, and extended memory. Windows works around that for us, now.3. Cluster size. Remember FAT? Remember taking a 1.6GB drive and partitioning into four 400MB logical disks? All because the too-big FAT cluster size meant that a lot of your space got eaten up by small files. Big drives=big clusters.4. Could be anything, really. I'm not an expert in storage esoterica.Can we expect 1TB disk drives? Absolutely. Patches and BIOS upgrades, if necessary, are easily deliverable. Can we use all that space? Oh, I'm sure we'll find a way.But most of the &quot;rich media&quot; scenarios put forth by the original poster are unrelated to storage capacity -- they're matters of bandwidth, politics, and copyright law. The first 1TB disk drive will not be the watershed moment he envisions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TeeSeeJay, post: 712813, member: 9969"] This is all true. However, if you spend enough money, SCSI and RAID become simpler than IDE. No jumpers, no ribbon cables. Creating a RAID3/5 stripe set is just running a wizard. Back to the question of the 1 Terabyte drive. I'd bet a dollar that if it were released today, it wouldn't work in any of our computers. Why? Too many shortcuts got us where we are today. Technically, there shouldn't be a problem. We can do huge partitions -- and even if we couldn't, there's always multiple partitions. But any number of potential roadblocks exist: 1. BIOS incompatibility. Anyone remember the 540MB limit? You needed a BIOS upgrade or a disk management overlay to get around the hardware limitation. 2. Remember the 640k limit? It gave us Low, high, expanded, and extended memory. Windows works around that for us, now. 3. Cluster size. Remember FAT? Remember taking a 1.6GB drive and partitioning into four 400MB logical disks? All because the too-big FAT cluster size meant that a lot of your space got eaten up by small files. Big drives=big clusters. 4. Could be anything, really. I'm not an expert in storage esoterica. Can we expect 1TB disk drives? Absolutely. Patches and BIOS upgrades, if necessary, are easily deliverable. Can we use all that space? Oh, I'm sure we'll find a way. But most of the "rich media" scenarios put forth by the original poster are unrelated to storage capacity -- they're matters of bandwidth, politics, and copyright law. The first 1TB disk drive will not be the watershed moment he envisions. [/QUOTE]

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