Author Topic: Max hard drive size? (Read 28513 times)

ChaosLord · « **on:** January 02, 2011, 08:19:28 PM »

My brother says the max hard drive size on Windows XP is 2TB and that if I want to use 3TB drives I hafta switch to Windows 7. Is that true?

ChaosLord · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2011, 08:21:37 PM »

Quote from: johnklos;603435

Both IDE and SCSI can only directly handle 2^32 (or 4 billion) sectors, which is 2 terabytes (or 2,199,023,255,552 bytes).

No. It depends how big the sectors are.

ChaosLord · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2011, 07:35:54 PM »

Quote from: Selles;603572

Why do you guys need such large hard drives on an Amiga computer?

Data storage.