bigsinky

can anyone tell me if the 137 gig limit is OS related. I am running XP Professional using the NTFS. does NTFS have this 137 gig limit or can it use the 48 bit addressing that is required for big drives.

cheers

big sinky

bigsinky

sorted. ntfs will support 2 to the power of 64 bits in theory but microshaft have only impltemented 2 to the power of 28 bits (about 2 terabytes or 2000 Gig).

cheers

big sinky

AlexM

This is an LBA addressing limitation in the ATA66/100 EIDE standard..

ATA133 drives don't have this limitation (when combined with an ATA133 controller)

adge

iTrader: (22)

You need sp1 to format above 137 gig as I recently found out with my 180 gig HD

towzer

can't you carve the drive into smaller logical chunks and append each logical drive to create one big storage space?

On servers with RAID configs the I/O performance is actually increased because the O/S can issue multiple smaller write commands to the carved up chunks of disk, rather than having to issue one big write to a single lare disk.

Phil

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

a friend is running a 200gig hdd with win xp and no partiotions