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2TB+ HDD's Will they need EFI?

SickBeast said:
This issue should have been dealt with a long time ago. It's not like they didn't know it was coming.
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This all seems pretty much like every other "innovation" in the PC storage business. As larger hard drives have been delivered, PCs, OSes, motherboards, and BIOSes had to be modified, or worked-around (with things like BIOS overlays), or had to be replaced. It's never easy.
 
SickBeast said:
This issue should have been dealt with a long time ago. It's not like they didn't know it was coming.
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You can get motherboards with UEFI now, it's just that some manufacturers are slower to offer them because the drives are fairly new and the problem is exacerbated by MS' half-assed support for it.
 
Only if your OS does not support hybrid GPT/MBR, and as such requires EFI BIOS support to boot from GPT partition. Other OS like FreeBSD has no such limitation, and allow old legacy BIOS who do not support GPT to still boot from a GPT-formatted disk.

Windows' support for GPT is quite poor compared to other OS, this might hinder quick adoption of 2TB+ disks.
 
sub.mesa said:
Only if your OS does not support hybrid GPT/MBR, and as such requires EFI BIOS support to boot from GPT partition. Other OS like FreeBSD has no such limitation, and allow old legacy BIOS who do not support GPT to still boot from a GPT-formatted disk.

Windows' support for GPT is quite poor compared to other OS, this might hinder quick adoption of 2TB+ disks.
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Sadly, that last sentence can pretty much be used to describe any new technology...
 
Nothinman said:
You can get motherboards with UEFI now, it's just that some manufacturers are slower to offer them because the drives are fairly new and the problem is exacerbated by MS' half-assed support for it.
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I think the other side of the equation is the popularity of SSD drives. We're nowhere near having affordable 2TB+ SSD drives and most 2TB+ spindle drives are used for storage. It makes sense to use cheap and reliable drives for storage and super fast, but smaller drives for your OS.
 
Golgatha said:
I think the other side of the equation is the popularity of SSD drives. We're nowhere near having affordable 2TB+ SSD drives and most 2TB+ spindle drives are used for storage. It makes sense to use cheap and reliable drives for storage and super fast, but smaller drives for your OS.
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True, SSDs have slowed the bleeding by distracting people. But all that's going to do is push the problems back a bit. Eventually we're going to be seeing people crying about lack of GPT/EFI support in Windows when it could be universally supported now.
 
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