Ralph, the easiest route here would be to go out and buy one of the drives and test it out for yourself or just ask the vendor.
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 09:42 AM 2/8/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this: >Peter, > >This is great info to know about the current state of affairs with regard >to hard drive sizes. BUT this unfortunately does not answer my original >question - can the program memtioned in the posting with regard to >partioning handle hard drives of VERY lage size, such as you have brought >up in this posting??? > >Ralph > > > >Ralph, 137 gb is the limit for ATA hard drives. Maxtor has recently >developed a new interface to extend ATA drives to the 144 pb (petabyte) >range which is roughly 144 million gb. See more here >http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/news/20010626-66917.cfm. BTW, Maxtor has >a nice 160 gb >http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/DiamondMax/QuickSpecs/42092.htm >Good news considering Huge Systems has released a new A/V RAID setup >offering up to 1.2 terabytes of RAID 3 storage http://www.hugesystems.com/. > >Peter Kaulback > >In the hour of 02:41 PM 2/7/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke >this: > >Peter, > > > >After going to the web site for the product, I could not find out a major > >issue that is important to me - how large a hard drive can the program > >handle??? With hard drives showing up on the market greater than 100 Gig > >(have recently seen 120 Gig drive advertised), this gets very important - > >not only how large a total drive the program can handle, but how does it > >deal with creating any size partitions, no matter which OS or Fat is being > >used. > > > >The author of the program brings up Partition Magic in his FAQ info - I > >know the latest version of that program can only handle hard drives to 80 > >Gig in size, so that was what triggered the issue with this program and >its > >ability to handle LARGE hard drives. > > > >Ralph ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
