Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >