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From: "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:25:52 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com> wrote:
>  > Yeah.  Except Dell will undoubtedly have them in desktops
>  > within 2 years, and tons of people (myself included) still use
>  > 32-bit (K)Ubuntu on our systems, simply for the better binary
>  > compatibility that it is perceived to give with things like
>  > browser plugins and stuff.
>
>  I think that there are many embedded applications (lots of them linux based)
>  which have large amounts of storage behind low power, low cost 32 bit CPU's.
>
>  Think of the home/small office NAS boxes that you can get from bestbuy or other
>  big box stores. Those devices today have 4 S-ATA drives (each of which can be
>  1TB in size).

I can attest to this. I hear from a reliable source (manufacturer)
that 2TB 3.5" disks will be out no later than first half of 2009
(possibly even sooner, or at least 1.5TB). I currently use 1TB disks
with a Geode LX based motherboard for SATA RAID and I plan on
upgrading/consolidating to larger sizes once they become available in
the market. 64-bit is not an option for me on this hardware.

-Andrew