Have 3 750 gig hard drives on Vista home pre

They would take some backing up too, eh.. I still use 80's :-)


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> That's an awful lot of information to loose when 1 hard drive goes bad.
> (-:
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:119AD3AD-B1CD-4B3E-8BFC-7B1B03164985@microsoft.com...

>> How much more hard drive space can I add?
>>
>> Thanks Jon

>

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Hi, Jon.

How many power connectors and data connectors does your computer have? Any
USB ports, where one or many USB external drives might be connected? You
can keep adding hard drives until you run out of connectors - or money!
Vista can handle as many hard drives as you can connect, I suspect.

Remember that maximum storage capacity is determined by the File System
(FATx or NTFS), not by the Operating System (MS-DOS, Windows or Vista). The
NTFS file system limit is explained here:

How NTFS Works
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true

It says the maximum NTFS volume size is, "Implementation: 256 terabytes
minus 64 KB ( 232 clusters minus 1 cluster)". But we can have multiple hard
drives and put multiple volumes on each hard drive, so I don't think Vista
is worried about running out of room for a few years.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How much more hard drive space can I add?
>
> Thanks Jon

You might want to slip in one or more of these babys.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10351
"Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How much more hard drive space can I add?
>
> Thanks Jon

There may be some limitation, but I'm guessing you'd run out of money before
you reached it. With Vista, and earlier Windows, you could have drives C:
through Z: and also mount drives as folders into existing drives letters. So
with both USB and Fire wire, as well as SATA inside, you could easily have a
few dozen of the 750GB drives. Then there is RAID, where you could have five
drives as one drive letter.

I have two of those same Seagate 750GB drives as my P: (pictures) and V:
(video) drives. I opted for higher performance in general with a 10K RPM
150GB C: drive. I also have three of the Seagate 750GB drives as externals
for use as video storage on two other PCs here.

Bye.

"Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How much more hard drive space can I add?
>
> Thanks Jon

And I remember in 1993 when a college said to me, "A one Gig hard drive. How
would you ever fill it?" He had just read about the technology in a computer
magazine.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"David Sommers" <dsommers@ACM.org> wrote in message
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> There may be some limitation, but I'm guessing you'd run out of money
> before you reached it. With Vista, and earlier Windows, you could have
> drives C: through Z: and also mount drives as folders into existing drives
> letters. So with both USB and Fire wire, as well as SATA inside, you could
> easily have a few dozen of the 750GB drives. Then there is RAID, where you
> could have five drives as one drive letter.
>
> I have two of those same Seagate 750GB drives as my P: (pictures) and V:
> (video) drives. I opted for higher performance in general with a 10K RPM
> 150GB C: drive. I also have three of the Seagate 750GB drives as externals
> for use as video storage on two other PCs here.
>
> Bye.
>
> "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:119AD3AD-B1CD-4B3E-8BFC-7B1B03164985@microsoft.com...

>> How much more hard drive space can I add?
>>
>> Thanks Jon

>

In article <119AD3AD-B1CD-4B3E-8BFC-7B1B03164985@microsoft.com>, Jon
says...

> How much more hard drive space can I add?
>

As much as you can fit controller cards in for.


--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

That article was for Windows server 2003 is NTFS the same for all flavors of
Windows?

I thought that Windows XP NTFS limit was 2.5 TBs. Every time I tried to add
a usb hard to one of my Windows XP PCs that had 2.25 TB on it would always
lose one of the other hard drives. That is why I upgraded to Vista.

Ps I have a Media work area for my wifes work and entertainment for my
family with 1 Mac, 3 Windows MC (1 XP 2 Vista), Media server (dual boot
Windows XP and WHS beta), 6 Windows XP laptops and 1 Windows XP tablet.
Jon

"R. C. White, MVP" wrote:

> Hi, Jon.
>
> How many power connectors and data connectors does your computer have? Any
> USB ports, where one or many USB external drives might be connected? You
> can keep adding hard drives until you run out of connectors - or money!
> Vista can handle as many hard drives as you can connect, I suspect.
>
> Remember that maximum storage capacity is determined by the File System
> (FATx or NTFS), not by the Operating System (MS-DOS, Windows or Vista). The
> NTFS file system limit is explained here:
>
> How NTFS Works
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
>
> It says the maximum NTFS volume size is, "Implementation: 256 terabytes
> minus 64 KB ( 232 clusters minus 1 cluster)". But we can have multiple hard
> drives and put multiple volumes on each hard drive, so I don't think Vista
> is worried about running out of room for a few years.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
>
> "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:119AD3AD-B1CD-4B3E-8BFC-7B1B03164985@microsoft.com...

> > How much more hard drive space can I add?
> >
> > Thanks Jon

>

Hi, Jon.

Did you read the whole article? Or at least, down to NTFS Size Limits?
Yes, it mentions some special features for the new server version of
Windows, and there are a few comments that apply to only certain Windows
versions, but most of it applies to all operating systems that use NTFS.

Wow! You have a LOT of PC power! ;<) And you probably already knew most
of what we've told you. But that article should help you fill in any gaps.
The answer to your question still depends on the physical capacity of your
computer. NTFS in Vista should be able to handle over 200 TB - per VOLUME.
And you can have multiple volumes on each hard drive, of course, so Vista
should be able to handle several exabytes on a single disk - theoretically,
of course.

> I thought that Windows XP NTFS limit was 2.5 TBs.

No. My hard copy of the Windows XP Resource Kit says (p. 543), "...the
maximum NTFS volume size as implemented in Windows XP Professional is 2^32
clusters minus 1 cluster. For example, using 64-KB clusters, the maximum
NTFS volume size is 256 terabytes minus 64 KB. Using the default cluster
size of 4 KB, the maximum NTFS volume size is 16 terabytes minus 4 KB." You
can read the complete WinXP Pro RK online at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...13621675.mspx;
I haven't seen the Vista RK yet.

> Every time I tried to add
> a usb hard to one of my Windows XP PCs that had 2.25 TB on it would always
> lose one of the other hard drives. That is why I upgraded to Vista.

Some other limitation in your computer must have been causing that problem.
I haven't tried a USB HD, so I don't know about the limits on that. Did all
the drives show up in Disk Management? I've used only the Professional
version of WinXP; there may be smaller size limits if you were using a
different version.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> That article was for Windows server 2003 is NTFS the same for all flavors
> of
> Windows?
>
> I thought that Windows XP NTFS limit was 2.5 TBs. Every time I tried to
> add
> a usb hard to one of my Windows XP PCs that had 2.25 TB on it would always
> lose one of the other hard drives. That is why I upgraded to Vista.
>
> Ps I have a Media work area for my wifes work and entertainment for my
> family with 1 Mac, 3 Windows MC (1 XP 2 Vista), Media server (dual boot
> Windows XP and WHS beta), 6 Windows XP laptops and 1 Windows XP tablet.
> Jon
>
> "R. C. White, MVP" wrote:
>

>> Hi, Jon.
>>
>> How many power connectors and data connectors does your computer have?
>> Any
>> USB ports, where one or many USB external drives might be connected? You
>> can keep adding hard drives until you run out of connectors - or money!
>> Vista can handle as many hard drives as you can connect, I suspect.
>>
>> Remember that maximum storage capacity is determined by the File System
>> (FATx or NTFS), not by the Operating System (MS-DOS, Windows or Vista).
>> The
>> NTFS file system limit is explained here:
>>
>> How NTFS Works
>> http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
>>
>> It says the maximum NTFS volume size is, "Implementation: 256 terabytes
>> minus 64 KB ( 232 clusters minus 1 cluster)". But we can have multiple
>> hard
>> drives and put multiple volumes on each hard drive, so I don't think
>> Vista
>> is worried about running out of room for a few years.
>>
>> RC
>>
>> "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:119AD3AD-B1CD-4B3E-8BFC-7B1B03164985@microsoft.com...

>> > How much more hard drive space can I add?
>> >
>> > Thanks Jon