Seeking (somewhat) better explanations about supporting >2 TB hard drives
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Mar 15, 2026831 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Today while Googling about I stumbled across posts claiming that Seagate plans to ship a 3TB drive sometime later in 2010. Unfortunately, the stuff I looked at all seemed to contain tidbits of info which I didn't think fit together properly. (I would link to some examples, but I'm only allowed 1 li…
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Long LBA addressing (LLBA)
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The statements about "Long LBA" seem to originate from that one Seagate product manager. What she probably meant is that even though 48-bit LBA is the standard on hardware, 32-bit OSes and drivers may not support all 48 bits, since (a) they're 32-bi…
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