Re: NTFS physical limits

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From: Randall Arnold (rgarnold_at_cathartis.com_)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:16:11 -0600

I f I recall correctly, the new file system to be used by Longhorn blows
past that 2tb limit.

Just musing...

Randall Arnold

"Bjorn Landemoo" <mvp2.REMOVE@landemoo.com> wrote in message
news:9df1501hm07gamomh4eg7dcncbfeb5re47@4ax.com...
> Tony
>
> The partition table has a limit of 2^32 sectors. From MS Knowledge Base
> article 114841:
>
> With a standard sector size of 512 bytes, the 32 bits used to represent
> the
> Relative Offset and Number of Sectors translates into a maximum possible
> partition size of 2 terabytes or (2,199,023,255,552 bytes).
>
> Best regards
>
> Bjorn
> --
> Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
>
>
> "Tony Myhrberg" <ttm@raa.se> wrote:
>
>>Im planning to buy a external S-ATA raid cabinet with 15
>>250GB S-ATA drives. The total storage for the array would
>>be 3,5TB. Are physical drives limited to 2TB in Windows?
>>I read in the documentation for windows Server that
>>dynamic disks kan be spanned up to 64TB with 32 2TB
>>disks. But i cant find any documentation where it says
>>that physical drives cant be larger tha 2TB. Is this a
>>really a limit or have i got it wrong?
>>
>>Tony Myhrberg
>>RAA
>

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