Thanks -- is the 2 x 2TB a 4TB partition? btw, what do you recall as "pre flood" prices for a 2TB drive vs. what they seem to be now?
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Jonathan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
