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That's an awful lot of information to loose when 1 hard drive goes bad. (-:

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Richard Urban
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They would take some backing up too, eh.. I still use 80's :-)


Richard Urban said:
That's an awful lot of information to loose when 1 hard drive goes bad.
(-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
Hi, Jon.

How many power connectors and data connectors does your computer have? Any
USB ports, where one or many USB external drives might be connected? You
can keep adding hard drives until you run out of connectors - or money!
Vista can handle as many hard drives as you can connect, I suspect.

Remember that maximum storage capacity is determined by the File System
(FATx or NTFS), not by the Operating System (MS-DOS, Windows or Vista). The
NTFS file system limit is explained here:

How NTFS Works
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...bf8e-4164-862d-dac5418c59481033.mspx?mfr=true

It says the maximum NTFS volume size is, "Implementation: 256 terabytes
minus 64 KB ( 232 clusters minus 1 cluster)". But we can have multiple hard
drives and put multiple volumes on each hard drive, so I don't think Vista
is worried about running out of room for a few years.

RC
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San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
There may be some limitation, but I'm guessing you'd run out of money before
you reached it. With Vista, and earlier Windows, you could have drives C:
through Z: and also mount drives as folders into existing drives letters. So
with both USB and Fire wire, as well as SATA inside, you could easily have a
few dozen of the 750GB drives. Then there is RAID, where you could have five
drives as one drive letter.

I have two of those same Seagate 750GB drives as my P: (pictures) and V:
(video) drives. I opted for higher performance in general with a 10K RPM
150GB C: drive. I also have three of the Seagate 750GB drives as externals
for use as video storage on two other PCs here.

Bye.
 
And I remember in 1993 when a college said to me, "A one Gig hard drive. How
would you ever fill it?" He had just read about the technology in a computer
magazine.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
That article was for Windows server 2003 is NTFS the same for all flavors of
Windows?

I thought that Windows XP NTFS limit was 2.5 TBs. Every time I tried to add
a usb hard to one of my Windows XP PCs that had 2.25 TB on it would always
lose one of the other hard drives. That is why I upgraded to Vista.

Ps I have a Media work area for my wifes work and entertainment for my
family with 1 Mac, 3 Windows MC (1 XP 2 Vista), Media server (dual boot
Windows XP and WHS beta), 6 Windows XP laptops and 1 Windows XP tablet.
Jon
 
Hi, Jon.

Did you read the whole article? Or at least, down to NTFS Size Limits?
Yes, it mentions some special features for the new server version of
Windows, and there are a few comments that apply to only certain Windows
versions, but most of it applies to all operating systems that use NTFS.

Wow! You have a LOT of PC power! ;<) And you probably already knew most
of what we've told you. But that article should help you fill in any gaps.
The answer to your question still depends on the physical capacity of your
computer. NTFS in Vista should be able to handle over 200 TB - per VOLUME.
And you can have multiple volumes on each hard drive, of course, so Vista
should be able to handle several exabytes on a single disk - theoretically,
of course.
I thought that Windows XP NTFS limit was 2.5 TBs.
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No. My hard copy of the Windows XP Resource Kit says (p. 543), "...the
maximum NTFS volume size as implemented in Windows XP Professional is 2^32
clusters minus 1 cluster. For example, using 64-KB clusters, the maximum
NTFS volume size is 256 terabytes minus 64 KB. Using the default cluster
size of 4 KB, the maximum NTFS volume size is 16 terabytes minus 4 KB." You
can read the complete WinXP Pro RK online at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c13621675.mspx;
I haven't seen the Vista RK yet.
Every time I tried to add
a usb hard to one of my Windows XP PCs that had 2.25 TB on it would always
lose one of the other hard drives. That is why I upgraded to Vista.
Click to expand...

Some other limitation in your computer must have been causing that problem.
I haven't tried a USB HD, so I don't know about the limits on that. Did all
the drives show up in Disk Management? I've used only the Professional
version of WinXP; there may be smaller size limits if you were using a
different version.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
Jon said:
That article was for Windows server 2003 is NTFS the same for all flavors
of
Windows?

I thought that Windows XP NTFS limit was 2.5 TBs. Every time I tried to
add
a usb hard to one of my Windows XP PCs that had 2.25 TB on it would always
lose one of the other hard drives. That is why I upgraded to Vista.
Click to expand...

I wouldn't have thought the file system size was the issue there. I believe
the size limit for NTFS file systems refers to a partition, not every
partition on every disk that you happen to have plugged in. I'm interested
to hear if I'm right or wrong on that now.

One thing with disks, which you're probably all too aware of but I'll throw
in anyway, is power concerns. The more drives you add internally, the more
power will be drawn from the system's PSU.
 
Richard Urban said:
And I remember in 1993 when a college said to me, "A one Gig hard drive. How
would you ever fill it?" He had just read about the technology in a computer
magazine.

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
Click to expand...

LOL I remember selling 10 MEG not GIG mfm drives and looking the client dead
in the face in all seriousness and saying, "this is 100 million keystrokes,
do you really think you will ever fill this up."

I actually remember when dual 5.25 floppies was a BIG deal and yes I do also
remember the 8" floppies and 20 meg diskpacks that were the size of a stack
of 5 pickup truck tires.

Now our operating systems alone use 10 meg and that is a light version! :)

Just a little reminiscing from the old fart. Back to your regularly
scheduled tech meetings. :)

Cecil
 
Had compaies like Microsoft worked to keep their software small, fast and
code efficient we would probably still be using smaller hard drives.
However, software and the OSes have bloated like a dead whale laying on a
beach. That is why we are now approaching the need for 1TB drive systems.
Lets face it today's programming langauges and the attitudes of companies is
that storage is cheap so who cares of a photo viewer needs 1GB of hard drive
space.

Somebody!
 
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