Seagate is reportedly coming out with a 3TB update to their Constellation ES drives - possibly this year. That would be about typical, I think; a 150% increase as an intermediate step to doubling is something I think they've done before.
What I've seen definitely suggests a SAS version; and since the ES comes in SAS and SATA now, it might well be both too. Will there be any problems with this? I gather the larger LBA field could cause problems for PC BIOS's, at least for a boot drive...maybe newer EFI firmware would be ok. How about SPARCs - OpenBoot (which versions) and so on - will they be able to handle these? (my particular case is a Sun Blade 2000 with OBP 4.16.4 and the drives off of an LSI SAS 3800x (PCI-X in the 64-bit slot) SAS controller) And if the firmware can do its thing, how about subsequent stages, up to and including the OS? Always looking at disk upgrades...always wondering whether to hold off for something even bigger or to stop putting it off and get what's available now...can't put it off to many more times... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
