It's kind of a moot point; there are not that many "server drives" made
in 2.5" size anyway.


Pierre Asselin wrote:

On Sep 6, 11:18 am, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOS...@neo.rr.com> wrote:
I see.

BTW, in the deskop systems, if the system doesn't take the primary
hard drive lrager thah 137GB, it would not take a secondary HD larger
then 137 GB either, right? Well, it would utilize only up to 137 GB,
right?

Re: "in the deskop systems, if the system doesn't take the primary
hard drive lrager thah 137GB, it would not take a secondary HD larger
then 137 GB either, right?"

Right.

The subject here is support for 48-bit LBA (logical block addressing).
A Google search will turn up a lot of references. The subject is not
well understood by most users and there are a lot of misconceptions
about it.

But any computer made in the last 2-3 years should not have a problem
(and probably most, but not all, computers made in the last 5 years).

However, the hardware isn't the entire issue .... even if the COMPUTER
supports it, the operating system may not and you can still have
problems. Windows XP (original release) does NOT support it, Windows
SP1 doesn't natively support it but can be made to support it with a
registry patch, and Windows XP SP2 supports it natively with no patches.

Note, even on a system whose hardware supports it, installing a version
of windows that doesn't support it (such as XP original or XP SP1) to a
drive larger than 137GB can become very problematic (the fact that
Windows XP SP1 can be patched to support 48-bit LBA doesn't necessarily
get you "un-screwed" since you may need such support DURING installation).


amandaf37@gmail.com wrote:

On Sep 6, 8:12 pm, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOS...@neo.rr.com> wrote:
Oh, that's what LBA stands for. I did take a course in Computer Repair
so that I'd not be so lost with hardware issues but I hated that the
class was taught with Windows 98 using old machine. I have to review
what's that LBA is.


I remember reading about that when I did google search yesterday.
I have Windows XP SP2 cd.

In news:crvtd3d3qacdplac6jfi67fu7553hckqvb@4ax.com,
Lars typed on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 14:23:
I wish I could say 100GB is a lot. :-( As I record a lot of TV programs
from time to time either from my laptop or desktop. And I could use a
50TB hard drive actually.

--
Bill

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:27:10 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

It is amazing how our need for storage space has grown. In my present
desktop I have more than 1000 times the disk space of my first
computer. And that is only over 13 years. 500 MB to 570 GB.

My brother got into computers several years before me, and he has told
me of when he bought his first hard drive. (Previosly having had only
floppies.) The HD cost abt $1500, which was quite a bit more at the
time, maybe half a months salary. But he decided to buy it anyway
since "it would solve his storage needs for ever".

Now you can get a terabyte for a couple of days work.


Lars
Stockholm