storage question...

p4tmemory · 05-31-2006, 05:05 PM

folks,

I require more and more storage. at this point i've got a 160 gig drive full and my C: drive shows 35 gigs left out of 111.

my system is an asus P4C800-E

my question is how large a drive can i mount in this system? I'm running windows XP pro service p 2

i think this system recognized the newer SATA drives - LMB?

a 500 gig drive would see me for awhile... but with burgeoning folders and hi-res images being saved daily i'm really thinking about the possiblility of a terrabite?

will the asus P4C800-E handle a TB?

has anyone mounted this kind of storage capacity on the asus P4C800-E?

any information would be very welcomed.

thanks,

tws

**UncleMacro** · 06-01-2006, 01:43 AM

The P4C800-E, like all modern motherboards, supports 48 bit LBA (logical block addressing). That means it should support frighteningly huge hard disks (approximately 131,000 gigabytes). The biggest thing I've plugged into my P4C800-E is 300MB, but barring BIOS bugs, it should support larger disks then you could possibly need. The Windows file system is likely to be your only limit. FAT32 theoretically supports up to 2TB but it gets inefficient at that kind of size. You'll probably be better off using NTFS which can handle 64 bit (even more frighteningly huge) sizes.

p4tmemory · 06-01-2006, 04:26 AM

Thanks UncleMacro

tws

05-31-2006, 05:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
p4tmemory Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 28 OS: win2000	storage question... folks, I require more and more storage. at this point i've got a 160 gig drive full and my C: drive shows 35 gigs left out of 111. my system is an asus P4C800-E my question is how large a drive can i mount in this system? I'm running windows XP pro service p 2 i think this system recognized the newer SATA drives - LMB? a 500 gig drive would see me for awhile... but with burgeoning folders and hi-res images being saved daily i'm really thinking about the possiblility of a terrabite? will the asus P4C800-E handle a TB? has anyone mounted this kind of storage capacity on the asus P4C800-E? any information would be very welcomed. thanks, tws

06-01-2006, 01:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
UncleMacro TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,133 OS: Vista SP1 My System	The P4C800-E, like all modern motherboards, supports 48 bit LBA (logical block addressing). That means it should support frighteningly huge hard disks (approximately 131,000 gigabytes). The biggest thing I've plugged into my P4C800-E is 300MB, but barring BIOS bugs, it should support larger disks then you could possibly need. The Windows file system is likely to be your only limit. FAT32 theoretically supports up to 2TB but it gets inefficient at that kind of size. You'll probably be better off using NTFS which can handle 64 bit (even more frighteningly huge) sizes.

06-01-2006, 04:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
p4tmemory Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 28 OS: win2000	Thanks UncleMacro tws