Disk prices are slowly coming down. Newegg had a sale on 1T laptop
disks last week and I got a slow one for $120 or so. Till midnight
tonight they have a 2T for $120, one per customer.
In June things ought to be better..
--STeve Andre'
On 03/11/12 18:04, Scott Matthews wrote:
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
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