***** NEW 3TB WESTERN DIGITAL SATA-II HARD DRIVE *****

[Berserker]

nice size, its a shame this will only format to about 2.7TB so you lose about 300GB!

You don't 'lose' anything. It was never there (well, OK, some of it was if you count ECC data and the like).

3.0TB ~ 3,000,000,000,000 bytes ~ 2.728 TiB

It's all down to what units you use. Hard disk manufacturers use SI (mega, giga, tera), computers use IEC (mebi, gibi, tebi). Unfortunately, most computers still display GB where they mean GiB, etc.

I calculate if I slapped in 4 of these it'll give me 8.5TB of storage from 12TB of total.

I make it 8.1 TiB.

 

[Westyfield2]

Free bump for Andrew Moore

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Hmmm...good find, I wonder if they'll be able to do it simply with a firmware update though seeing as these seem to need the adapter card.

Yesterday Drobo did the first of the firmware updates .

Drobo S on Firmware Version 2.1.0 [5.28.33144] now supports Large Capacity Drives (>2TB) . Release notes are here.

I'd imagine that the other models won't be very far behind, and according to @Drobo the Drobo-FS will be done before new year.