What Is The Largest External Hard Drive

FYI............2 UPDATES since I posted this question:

Fantom Drives 8TB External Hard Drive - Super Fast 7200RPM USB 3.0 - Black Aluminum External Hard Drive for Mac, PC, Xbox One and PS4 - by Fantom Drives (GF3B8000UP) 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,484 $204.50 $ 204. Personally I don't have the need to swap the internal myself, as to me an external HDD is more convenient. But alot of people want it, and more options would be better in my view. Yes, there was an update on PS4 a while ago that made external harddrives compatible. Dozens of 2.5-inch drive enclosures can be found online for between $10-$25 (£15-25) that will let you drop in an old drive easily, and turn it into an external hard drive or SSD. Specifications:- In comparison to large external hard drives developed by Seagate and Western Digital, the Samsung 2.5 inch is the world's largest hard drive with 16 TB capacity. This is specially designed for enterprise purposes. It would easily fit in your laptop and its price is.


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1. Drobo has UPDATED their FIRMWARE to now allow for 64 TB 'Beyond RAID' Drobos. So, their original 16 TB limit has now been superseded by their new Limit of 64 TB. Also, note that, when using a Drobo, Apple's Mac OS does not properly show the 'Drive Space' and the 'Free Space,' if the Drobo exceeds 16 TB in size; but, the Drobo DashBoard Application does show the Correct Numbers. For example, my Drobo 5D contains 5, 8 TB Drives, for a Total Beyond RAID Size of 40 TB (in theory, since most of us should know, by now, that the ACTUAL SIZE IS SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE THEORETICAL SIZE). The ACTUAL SIZE AVAILABLE FOR USE IS ONLY 28.9 TB. Thus, 40 - 28.9 = 11.1 TB gets used-up for the Beyond RAID PROTECTION and the difference between ACTUAL SPACE versus THEORETICAL SPACE. THIS IS NORMAL because any RAID 5 Device always uses about 1 Hard Drive Size for its Protection. So, knowing this fact, the DeskTop Icon should be showing the Drive Space as 28.9 TB and the Free Space as whatever is not yet used. However, instead, the Mac OS shows the Drive Space as 70.37 TB and the Free Space as 68.37 TB, which are both incorrect. Although I would love it if the Mac OS was magically increasing my Hard Drive Space, in fact, both numbers are false. Drobo knows this and Apple does not, from my discussions with both. So, between the two companies, I hope this problem can be fixed.

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2. After many hours on the telephone with Apple Support, going through no less than 6 people, including 2 Senior Advisors, NONE OF THEM COULD ANSWER MY QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM ALLOWD HARD DRIVE OR RAID SPACE ALLOWED BY Yosemite and El Capitan. To me, THIS IMPORTANT TECHNICAL FACT SHOULD SIMPLY BE LISTED IN THE OS SPECIFICATION, that is easy and quick to read on the Support Site. But, Apple being the new bureaucracy that they are, I do not see this happening, anytime soon. So, just be aware that, for now, THERE IS NO LIMIT ON SIZE, as one Apple Advisor said; but, could not confirm in writing; and, THERE IS AN INCORRECT DISPLAY OF SIZE AND FREE SPACE, if your Drive exceeds an unknown 16+ TB in size. Note that I do have 3 other RAIDs that are correctly showing-up as 9 TB, 12 TB and 18 TB in size; but, I do not know at which point SIZE DOES MATTER so that the OS displays it incorrectly, except for my 40 TB Drobo. So, bottom line, somewhere in between 18 TB and 40 TB is where it goes false, in its display of sizes.

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Apr 21, 2016 2:56 PM

Seagate has unveiled the world's largest SSD: a 60-terabyte monster. Pricing isn't available, but the company says the drive will provide 'the lowest cost per gigabyte for flash' memory today.

The 60TB SSD was unveiled at the Flash Memory Summit in California—the same location that Samsung chose to reveal its 15.36TB SSD last year, which at the time was the world's largest hard drive.

The two drives aren't directly comparable, though, as the Samsung unit is a standard-size 2.5-inch SSD and the new Seagate drive uses the 3.5-inch hard drive form factor. Despite that, Seagate still claims that its drive has 'twice the density' of Samsung's. I don't think the maths quite work out, considering a 3.5-inch drive has a far greater volume than a 2.5-inch drive, but Seagate is probably referring to the density of the memory chips themselves. Moore's law is still alive and kicking for NAND, apparently.

Speaking of memory chips, the Seagate drive uses Micron's latest NAND flash. We've asked Seagate for more details on what chips are actually being used—but to be honest, given the extreme storage density of the drive, there aren't many feasible options. We are almost certainly looking at one of Micron's 3D NAND packages, which range in capacity from 256Gb to 6Tb. If Seagate is using the 1Tbit (~125 gigabytes) package, which is currently the highest-capacity chip in mass production at Micron, then there would be about 480 discrete memory chips inside that 3.5-inch enclosure. Seagate may have got its hands on some early samples of the 3Tb or 6Tb chips, though.

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We don't have any details on performance or longevity either, but generally drives of this size eschew the former in favour of the latter. We do have a figure on power consumption: 1W per terabyte. Other enterprise SSDs tend to sit at around 2W-per-TB at idle.

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When the Samsung drive finally started to trickle out this year there were reports that it cost upwards of £8,000 or $10,000. Likewise, Seagate isn't planning to release the 60TB drive immediately, but may release it early next year. Pricing is anyone's guess, but you probably won't get much change from £30,000 or $40,000—about £0.50 per gig, which is actually fairly reasonable... if you have 30 grand to blow, anyway.

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