Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB

From: Mark Lord
Date: Thu Aug 19 2010 - 09:12:17 EST


On 10-07-24 02:48 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote:

In fact, Seagate is already selling 3TB external drives and CrunchGear
was already able to get the internal 3TB drive inside out:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/hands-on-the-seagate-freeagent-goflex-desk-3tb-external-hard-drive/


The key word there is _external_ --> by using USB3/2/FW interfaces,
they neatly sidestep most BIOS issues. For the time being anyway.

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