Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Geoff - I still have the Drobo. I just replaced one of its 3TB drives with a 4TB one and am switching the 3TB to my JBOD enclosure. It is just an enclosure with no software. The drives slide in and out. Right now I have the Drobo with 4 4TB installed. Two JBOD enclosures - they each have 1 3TB and 3 2TB drives. I'm replacing one of the 2TB drives in the enclosure with the 3TB drive that came out of the Drobo. I had counted on having all of the 3TB to back-up my scans. I didn't have this problem when I installed the other two 3TB drives in the enclosures. Everything is exactly the same so I can't figure out why it's refusing to let me allocate half a terabyte of space! I do wish somebody could come and sit at my computer to figure it out. Thanks, Tina On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > Yep, I was trying to provide some sort of practical response based on what > was in Tina's query. Many users don't want to have to deal with partitions > and drivers and the like. Living with the 2TB limit might be the simplest > and no risk outcome. Sitting at the machine with Tina would be the ideal > assistance plan of course. > Tina is talking about a non-bootable disk I think. I assume in an external > enclosure. At one point Tina had a Drobo unit ( which can deal with the > bigger disks of course) but maybe no longer? > > I've never used any HDD's larger than 2TB as yet so I'll bow out. > > > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 19 December 2013 06:20, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12/18/13, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I assume that you have Windows 7 (or Vista)? This can't be > > > done with earlier windows than that. > > > For whatever its worth, my understanding is that 2 TB is a > > > limit due to the way windows deals with partitions. > > > > It's a limit for some partition types, but not a limit on physical drive > > size. The worst case is that you may have to use multiple partitions on > > the same physical unit.... As I understand it, most 7 boxes can handle > > physical drives up to something outrageous like 256 TB. > > > > I sub-partition drives routinely as it makes it somewhat easier for me to > > organize the system. I've never had any kind of issue with this at all. > > > > The partition reservation thing may be a limit in the JBOD box firmware > or > > the indexing routines, neither of which I have any experience with. > > > > > > R. Clayton McKee > > PhotoJournalist > > from somewhere just south of somewhere else... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com