[ltp] OT: SATA to be the standard of all 2.5" HD???

[James Knott]

Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 23:19 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>I could be wrong, but I believe drives passed the maximum ATA size a
>>while ago, which means anything larger than that limit has to be SATA.
> 
> You info is out of date. Every time a logical block addressing limit was
> close to be approached, a new higher bit LBA spec was created.
> 
> The current 48bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) allows for 144
> petabytes (144,000,000 gigabytes).
> 
> At home, I have two 500GB PATA drives in a RAID1 mirror. The 48bit LBA
> works great. :)

But what happens when drives exceed 144 PB?  ;-)