Western Digital launches hard drives with 3TB capacity, type WD30EZRS become the biggest hard drives are made. Price sold for $ 240. While the smaller models with a capacity of 2.5TB Western Digital WD25EZRS $ 189
The problem re-emerged with such a large capacity hard disk. For the computer world was most computers can only use the capacity of 2.19TB.
Like Windows XP will only recognize 4,294,967,296 logic blocks per drive. So the hard drive will only be known with a maximum capacity of .19 TB (2,199,023,255,552 bytes).
WD offers another solution is the addition of cards to their hard drive. With the BIOS to UEFI then known as the boot disk drive or second hard drive. Unfortunately the motherboard with a BIOS UEFI still step. So far the operating system Windows Vista and Windows 7 64bit has no problems.
WD30EZRSDTL 3TB comes with a PCI Express card HighPoint RocketRAID 62X. Card controller while a solution using disk with a capacity of 2.5TB and 3TB. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 where the system BIOS does not support large hard drive capacity. So the hard disk storage can only be recognized as an additional hard drive.
3TB WD hard drive comes with a 4-platter, each platter holds 750GB with a 64MB buffer. For capacity 3.000.492MB written format.
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