Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users

[Sandy]

BB, as there are still quite a few people still using XP on their machines, how do you feel that this will affect them and is there anything that they could do?

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm

[BartyB]

"To help Windows XP cope, advanced format drives will be able to pretend they still use sectors 512 bytes in size."

It will only effect you if you need to replace a drive and my guess would be that there will be planty of 512 hard drives around brand new till late 2012 by which time XP will be 11 years old and you should surely be looking at an upgrade

[bottomburp]

I dont think it will ever be a problem.

The only way you are ever going to fill these modern drives is IF you are storing 1080p HD video and you are not going to be able to play such files on anything but pretty new machines.

Some of my HD video files (full HD) are 15Gb a pop and will not even play on my media machine without being all jumpy and jerky

Lucky for me they play on my other PC ;D

As you will need a PCIe graphics slot (instead of the older AGP slots) in order to get a graphics card capable of doing the rendering. and PCIe slots were only invented in 2004 (becoming more common by 2006)

So unless you want to store 400,000 x 3Mb pictures or 2400 x 700Mb downloaded movie AVI's on an old machine, why would you even want a 2TB drive at the moment?

BB

[bottomburp]

Sorry for not answering the question...

As we need new PC's to fill these drives in the first place it is assumed that we will get newer operating systems to go with them.