On my ancient X32, which runs XP, I've had a 2TB external drive on one USB port, 2 x 2TB drives in a Blacx enclosure on another USB port, plus whatever on the firewire port. So 6 TB over two USB ports and three drives. No problema, except possibly the sectoring of the drives under XP. Manufacturers have utilities for that, though it is probably easier to borrow a Win7 machine and let it format your external 2 TB drives.
I've heard there can be complications with drive sizes > 2 TB, which made me decide to wait (aside from the fact that it isn't business, it's more of just seeing how far it can all go.) Drive prices remain high (about 2x what they were when I last bought a drive); I don't know when we'll work through the market consequences of last year's tragic flooding in Thailand. >750GB works, and I doubt there's any more size limit for usb than for an >internal drive. > >On another note, if you're moving much data, you may want to get an eSATA >capable drive enclosure for speed sake. >On Feb 12, 2012 1:58 PM, "Scott Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, I'm on the verge of needing more storage, just wanted to >> quickly check: is 2TB the maximum drive size for XP (32 bit)? >> >> fwiw, it'll be connected via USB -- and if it matters at all, there >> would be two of them. >> >> Thanks kindly, -Scott -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
