I am looking into creating a near 4 terabyte drive array on a Windows 2003
Enterprise Server. I have heard that Windows XP and possible 2003 standard
have a 2 Terabyte Size limit. Is that true for enterprise edition as well? I
would like to be able to create one large 4 terabyte partition in Windows. Is
this possible?

The 2003 operating system can create partitions beyond the 2TB limitation by
using dynamic disks; this allows you to create NTFS partitions up to 256TB
in size. Two things to keep in mind, however:

[1] Your hardware manufacturer may still have a limitation here that can't
be addressed by dynamic disks, and

[2] Depending on your particular configuration, sizing a DAS partition
larger than 2TB can create -horrible- performance latency. You might want to
look into NAS or SAN solutions to determine if those would make a better fit
for your needs.

HTH


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Laura E. Hunter
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
Author: _Active Directory Consultant's Field Guide_
(http://tinyurl.com/7f8ll)
Author: _Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition_
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