2006-10-09 18:37:48 · 2 answers · asked by prabhu_mcc2002 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The largest SINGLE DISK hard drive is 750 GB. The 1 TB drive is a Lacie RAID 0 External drive (as far as I've seen) which means it's actually TWO drives combined to appear as one single 1 TB/1000 GB drive. These drives should be avoided as they are TWICE as likely to fail and cuase you to lose all your data - when a single drive in a RAID 0 fails, BOTH drives become unusable and the data is gone.
If you can prove me wrong and show me an INTERNAL drive that is greater than 1 GB please do - otherwise, here's my proof:
http://www.pricewatch.com/hard%5Fdrives/ (look under SATA/Serial ATA and IDE/EIDE drives - none are over 750 GB. USB drives and Firewire drives are enclosed and create 1 TB using TWO physical drives - as I said before).
See Also:
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=14
And note the section is Internal Hard Drives - notice the capacity drop-down doesn't list any drive larger than 750 GB.
Now, if you want to use a RAID volume, you can get a RAID controller ($20-1000's) and setup a RAID 0+1/10 or 5 volume which combines multiple drives. Then you COULD have a drive that Windows sees as multiple Terabytes but is actually made up of several other drives "stuck together".
2006-10-09 19:33:22 · answer #1 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Tera Bite. This has come up in the US.
2006-10-09 18:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by Omar Zuberi 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋