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...The WD Caviar Green 2.5TB and 3TB hard drives are designed for use as secondary external storage systems and internal desktop drives in 64-bit systems, meaning the drives will not work with older operating systems like the still widely-used Windows XP. Newer operating systems, such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X do support 4K drive sectors. Linux-based systems require Unified Extensible Firmware Interface<http://www.uefi.org/home/> (UEFI) firmware to run the new drives. Most new Linux systems are UEFI capable.... --Michael T. Bendorf-- Technology Administrator A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 Google Voice: 217.408.0043 "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Heath Henderson <hmh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Watch the 3TB level. Some older systems can only address because of driver > issues 2.16TB per physical device. I think they do include generic drivers > which try and layer but this could be an issue. > > -Heath Henderson > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:49 PM, JimHays <hay...@sages.us> wrote: > > > And the prices that I saw were not too bad.... $249? Not bad for 3TB. > > > > > > Eric Barringer wrote: > >> 3 TB. Wow. > >> -Eric > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:44 AM, William M. Bell <be...@sages.us<mailto: > be...@sages.us>> wrote: > >> > >> http://bit.ly/9WkfFN > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------- > >> Bill Bell > >> Asst. Technology Coordinator > >> Monticello CUSD #25 > >> Monticello, IL 61856 > >> wb...@sages.us <http://wb...@sages.us> > >> ---------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org > >> <http://www.tech-geeks.org/> | > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Eric Barringer > >> Technology Coordinator > >> Blue Ridge CUSD #18 > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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