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Large HD
Will the A7N8X (rev. 2.0) support a 160gb IDE drive with WinXP SP1 installed
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For what i thought as long as you go with NTFS you can put up to 2
terabytes..so you should be good. "Turner" wrote in message ... Will the A7N8X (rev. 2.0) support a 160gb IDE drive with WinXP SP1 installed Thanks |
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Disregard, I found the postings above.
"Turner" wrote in message ... Will the A7N8X (rev. 2.0) support a 160gb IDE drive with WinXP SP1 installed Thanks |
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:43:57 -0600, My brain dual boots Concious and
Subconcious but I never had a choice but then "Chris Conway" wrote : For what i thought as long as you go with NTFS you can put up to 2 terabytes..so you should be good. Nope.2 terabytes is the FAT 32 limit of partitions. NTFS has a theoretical partition limit of 16 Exabytes or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (2^64 sectors). and would take 127 years to defrag ;-) HTH "Turner" wrote in message ... Will the A7N8X (rev. 2.0) support a 160gb IDE drive with WinXP SP1 installed Thanks -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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Shepİ wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:43:57 -0600, My brain dual boots Concious and Subconcious but I never had a choice but then "Chris Conway" wrote : For what i thought as long as you go with NTFS you can put up to 2 terabytes..so you should be good. Nope.2 terabytes is the FAT 32 limit of partitions. NTFS has a theoretical partition limit of 16 Exabytes or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (2^64 sectors). and would take 127 years to defrag ;-) The *theoretical* limit of NTFS is 16 EB. However, given the current practice of using 512 byte sectors in the hardware and the fact that NT and W2K only support partitions of up to 2^32 sectors, there is a *practical* limit on partition sizes of "only" 2 TB. NT and W2K support sector sizes up to 4 KB, which would extend the partition size limit to 16 TB. However, drive manufacturers have shown little inclination to use anything other than the current 512 byte standard for sectors. The size of the largest drives seems to be doubling about every 15 months, on average. If that rate continues we would be seeing 2 TB drives after just three more doublings - or in less than 4 more years. College students are going to fill them up with MP3's, lose everything because they didn't have a way to backup 2 TB, and then download them all over again. "Turner" wrote in message ... Will the A7N8X (rev. 2.0) support a 160gb IDE drive with WinXP SP1 installed Thanks -- Reply to newsgroup only please. This e-mail account is real but effectively abandoned because of excessive spamming. |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:54:31 -0600, My brain dual boots Concious and
Subconcious but I never had a choice but then Rob Stow wrote : Shepİ wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:43:57 -0600, My brain dual boots Concious and Subconcious but I never had a choice but then "Chris Conway" wrote : For what i thought as long as you go with NTFS you can put up to 2 terabytes..so you should be good. Nope.2 terabytes is the FAT 32 limit of partitions. NTFS has a theoretical partition limit of 16 Exabytes or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (2^64 sectors). and would take 127 years to defrag ;-) The *theoretical* limit of NTFS is 16 EB. However, given the current practice of using 512 byte sectors in the hardware and the fact that NT and W2K only support partitions of up to 2^32 sectors, there is a *practical* limit on partition sizes of "only" 2 TB. NT and W2K support sector sizes up to 4 KB, which would extend the partition size limit to 16 TB. However, drive manufacturers have shown little inclination to use anything other than the current 512 byte standard for sectors. The size of the largest drives seems to be doubling about every 15 months, on average. If that rate continues we would be seeing 2 TB drives after just three more doublings - or in less than 4 more years. College students are going to fill them up with MP3's, lose everything because they didn't have a way to backup 2 TB, and then download them all over again. Heh.Heh Personally hard drives are getting way too big and it's the old adage,"The more space,the more you fill it up".I would prefer the drive makers to concentrate on speed now the sizes are so big.I never keep critical data just on something as volatile as a hard drive ;-) -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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