Re: How many drives can windows support?

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From: Greg (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:58:20 -0800

I have about 200 movies I have bought over the years... I
can house them on 250 gb harddrives, but to make it look
like a DVD to a player, it needs to be on its own drive,
so I would use virtual drives (Daemon tools) to make these
drives...I don't need that many drives or channels, just
the ability to make it look like a drive to the computer..
>-----Original Message-----
>Hypothetically, it sounds like you have many more DVDs in
>your collection than have actually been published.
>
>Also hypothetically, for a collection of disks that cost
>about as much as my house, I think I'd keep pulling DVDs
>off the shelf.
>
>On a somewhat less hypothetical note, I hope you plan to
>RAID these because the failure rate of 1000 disks is
>going to be pretty high.
>
>You also have some interesting connection issues. For
>example this would take 500 IDE channels or 67 SCSI
>controllers.
>.
>

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