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Replying to iGuest Thats not true, I have a 1TB internal Hard Drive in my computer now and you can go bigger! -reply by Strawcakes
I believe the biggest you can buy at the store is 500gb, however I wouldn't know about the biggest on in the world. I would guess somewhere in the 1-5 TB range.
To my knowledge, the largest capacity packed in a single hard drive unit is 500GB, which are commonly available on the store shelves for individuals.
There are a number of external storage boxes configured to hold like 2TB, making use of multiple hard drives inside the box. The needs for larger storage capacity in the enterprise world is supported by enormous number of arrayed disk drives, than putting the data onto one disk. Therefore the capacity of such storage system can be really huge. By the way, your question title reminded me of my days i was selling 9" hard drives carrying only a few hundred of megabytes --- yes they were big too,,, physically. <grin>
yeah from what i googled the biggest is 500bg but then the next question would be the biggest harddrives connected to a network how about htat.
QUOTE(saint-michael @ Dec 16 2005, 05:24 AM) yeah from what i googled the biggest is 500bg but then the next question would be the biggest harddrives connected to a network how about htat.  I found a company called Lacie out of France that marketed this 2TB Monster hard drive. Also when considering network size and drives within wouldn't Seti be the largest. At least with them if you figure, all the drives they use over their network which uses a ton of computers. 
I have seen the biggest hd at 800 gb from pricewatch. Although the company dosent sell them. And I was going to say the same this sodredge said :/ but he got to it first.
I know that at my fathers company they work with harddisks of about 2TB(maybe more, but not sure) and then they use several of them combined. But that computers are quite big, somewhere near 2m x 3m x 1m (height x width x depth). Of course harddisks will have more capacity in future and less big but I don't want to have such a creature in my living room, do you?
-=jeroen=-
Off topic - but my first ever computer had a 3.5" HDD (in the days of huge bulky ones - way back in 1991's) with a WHOPPING CAPACITY OF 20 MEGABYTES
 Those days that used to be one of biggest hard drives around the block
You can find many IHV (independent hardware) companies like LaCie offering RAID subsystems, in which many cases they utilize 4 units of 500GB hard drives.
For the ease of installation, products aimed at SOHO and individual enthusiasts are often built in tower chasis. For corporates, a 2TB unit is made out of 4 x 500GB drives more often laid out in a "rack" (imagine something like a flat big tray.) There are solutions like stacking multiple racks to be connected through fiber channels to the server. If you had 7 racks stacked that'll make 14TB, for example. In reality, however, corporate storage solutions would generally sacrifice a lot of raw capacity for security and backup. They use techniques like RAID to reserve a part of capacity to achieve higher reliability. In other words, the capacity made available to store data is much less than plain sum of the disk capacity used. QUOTE(sodredge @ Dec 16 2005, 01:07 PM) I found a company called Lacie out of France that marketed this 2TB Monster hard drive. Also when considering network size and drives within wouldn't Seti be the largest. At least with them if you figure, all the drives they use over their network which uses a ton of computers. the "hard drive" u mentioned is an box of stroage 2tb isnt huge infact i have it in one computer lets see 8x 200 is what nearly 2 tb and i could always grab some 320gigs or bigger i belive 500 u will find is the bigest and easiest to get your hands on
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Replying to iGuest
Thats not true, I have a 1TB internal Hard Drive in my computer now and you can go bigger!
-reply by Strawcakes
What Is The Biggest Hard Drive In The World ?
What Is The Biggest Hard Drive In The World ? There is talk of this 5TB and 10TB also a 300TB all by Christmas. But they do currently offer a 2.5TB at my local PC stores and many online suppliers have 4TB available for a price of 2 full alienware computers. Vista and XP currently only can handle 2TB in the master slot. While Linux can handle 8EB in theory. Lots of the big companies like google and yahoo currently have servers over 50PB and it is theorized that all the internet is about 10ZB and grows 500TB per day. QUOTE (tremayne @ Aug 22 2009, 05:49 AM) EDIT: I'm quickly finding out this isn't the only thread in this category that's from 2005. There is no real reason suppressing threads that are from 2005. Most of the problems people express today are problems solved before 2005 bu somebody else. That's one part of the forum usage rules : before submitting a problem, have a look if this problem has not been already solved by a topic using the "search" button. Namely all the command-line tools in windows are well-known since tens of years, and a lot of people still don't know thins like "chkdsk" or "ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew" as well as unix commands like "cfgmgr -v"
There is some serious gravedigging going on here the first posts in this thread were from 4 years ago, I was about to post and tell people they were misinformed because back then HD's were alot smaller.
Look at dates! it helps keep the integrity of the forum EDIT: I'm quickly finding out this isn't the only thread in this category that's from 2005. The biggest hard drive in the world was the one made by IBM in 1956 with a capacity of only 5 MB using 50 aluminum discs but its bigger than a refrigerator. Largest capacity? that's a different question. -reply by dmax |
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