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System Name | Quantumville™ |
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Processor | Intel Core i7-2700K @ 4GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D14 |
Memory | 16GB (2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Black DDR3 PC3-12800 C9 1600MHz) |
Video Card(s) | MSI RTX 2080 SUPER Gaming X Trio |
Storage | Samsung 850 Pro 256GB | WD Black 4TB | WD Blue 6TB |
Display(s) | ASUS ROG Strix XG27UQR (4K, 144Hz, G-SYNC compatible) | Asus MG28UQ (4K, 60Hz, FreeSync compatible) |
Case | Cooler Master HAF 922 |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCIe |
Power Supply | Corsair AX1600i |
Mouse | Microsoft Intellimouse Pro - Black Shadow |
Keyboard | Yes |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit |
I thought this article from ExtremeTech quite interesting, even though I take issue with the author's "2.19TB" limit. It sounds like he's being naughty and using decimal to measure capacity, just like the HD makers.
He states that 512 bytes x 2^32 = 2,199,023,255,552 or 2.19TB. Actually, this is exactly 2TB.
Finally, did you know that the 4KB block addressing that completely solves this problem has been around since way back in the 90s? Me neither. Apparently, Windows XP and the manufacturers have held this improvement back for more than a decade.
ExtremelyTech
He states that 512 bytes x 2^32 = 2,199,023,255,552 or 2.19TB. Actually, this is exactly 2TB.
Finally, did you know that the 4KB block addressing that completely solves this problem has been around since way back in the 90s? Me neither. Apparently, Windows XP and the manufacturers have held this improvement back for more than a decade.
Ever since hard drives went mainstream in the late 1980s, computer owners have been able to count on one thing: their increasing capacity. As a result, what once used to be little more than a convenient method for reducing disk swapping has now become an integral part of daily life, with hard drives today storing not just our programs and our documents, but our very memories in the form of the photos and videos. The ever-increasing numbers of those have forced storage capacity to skyrocket to still more dizzying levels, to the point where most ordinary people now only really think of it when they're in danger of filling it up. But there's a reason that really large hard drives should be at the forefront of every computer owner's mind: they're about to become unusable.
Okay, perhaps that's a bit hyperbolic—but only a bit. The fact is, we're not just approaching the threshold at which hard drives can't get bigger: We're already there. The advent of very large hard drives, we're talking over 2.19 terabytes (TB) in capacity, in 2010 has highlighted a problem that's been growing for well over a decade, and whose seeds were planted when the very first hard drives hit the market some 25 or 30 years ago. The good news is that there are some solutions to it; the bad news is, they're little more than workarounds for an issue that needs more than makeshift bandages.
ExtremelyTech