Can't Backup Your 3T HDD?
If you were among
the early adopters of 3TB HDDs, you probably had struggled a bit booting from
your new drive unless you had all the right combinations of OS and BIOS to
start with.
Copying a 3TB HDD
with a HDD duplicator could be just as tricky. Similar to the support
from your OS, BIOS and HDD driver, a firmware upgrade on a duplicator such as
U-Reach’s 1-1 Pro118 will be required to handle the 3TB challenge.
If you’re not yet familiar with the 3TB issue,
think about the license plates on all vehicles—if each is allowed only to have
exactly 5 digits (0-9 without alphabets) once registered, the maximum number of
cars that can be uniquely identified by such license plates will be 105=100,000. Similarly, under the limited
32-bit structure adopted in legacy systems to address disk space, there could
only be as large as 2.2TB (we’ll spare you the calculation) recognized;
therefore, to extend beyond this limit, the addressing scheme has to be
improved and agreed upon by all relevant components, which is certainly not a
trivial task and unfortunately, not all systems are created equal moving
forward.
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