Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:53:27 -0800 From: John Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Toshiba 100GB HD review
As inexpensive as drives have become, I will test one in the Libretto... of course I don't have another computer that can seed a drive that large I don't think, but I will upgrade SOMETHING in here soon. I use Novell for file sever at home and anyone here who uses it knows there have not been drive limitations for more than 10 years. I guess Novell has spoiled me, as all this crap I have had to deal with for years relative to various drive issues seems ridiculous. Novell is what I work with mostly. It has been able to deal with terabyte drive arrays since version 4.1X in about 1994. Mirrored, Striped, Duplexed, spanning as many drives as hardware would support and I have never had it choke. The file server at one location I maintain has 6 physical Data Drives with one volume. They are striped across three (for speed) and duplexed to the other three (for active redundancy). I realize the stability (of Novell) in this area of drives is because of File Server designs dealing with drive volumes spanning multiple drives of course... much different than what is expected of a PC, but Windows has always been behind real operating systems in my opinion. Cutesy Sells though doesn't it... When I get a larger than 137GB drive and the correct Windows Patches, I will see if I can get it working and report on how reliable it is in Win98. I have a 486/50 running Windows 3.11FW that can browse the net (in 256 colors), so this drive support should be easy! : ) Thanks to everyone for so much usable information on this subject. As soon as David posted that about the 160GB I started wondering. Such extensive (exhaustive?) answers are really appreciated. Thank you, John Martin ======================================== ---------- From: Philip Nienhuis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:49 AM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba 100GB HD review <clipped a lot here> I think it's more like a hardware specification limit, not a real HW operational limit. For Win98 etc there are patches to access drives > 137 GB (not widely tested BTW AFAIK. Anyone care to try?, e.g.): http://members.aol.com/rloew1/ Philip
