0
For some reason I have a notion that it's somehow detrimental to the performance of your windows machine (and other OSs?) to use hard drives that are larger than 2TB. When I was thinking about this, I realised that I had no idea why I thought this and if it was true.
So is there any downside to using hard drives larger than 2TB?
Yann
Posted 2015-01-13T11:51:51.020
Reputation: 239
@CharlesH That question doesn't answer the specific question, just if there's a general correlation between size and speed. – Yann – 2015-01-13T11:56:08.560
There is no correlation between the speed of a HDD and the size of a HDD. Where exactly did you learn this notion because its not correct. Clearly the size of a HDD will determine how long a complete scan of the HDD will take but that's a separate concern. – Ramhound – 2015-01-13T12:05:52.317
Is there an actual problem you are dealing with? What have you researched and found so far? – CharlieRB – 2015-01-13T12:06:29.097
Aha, vindication. On looking around further, I've found this MSDN blog post talking about "very large volumes". It at least seems to indicate that there's a difference.
– Yann – 2015-01-13T12:07:47.2231I see nothing by the author of that article that mentions speed or access time. What I do find interesting is the graphic is actually 100% accurate. 8TB disks were announced at the end of 2014 and will be released in the first half of 2015. – Ramhound – 2015-01-13T12:21:28.567