Mount a 3TB drive for $25

[Guest001]

SATA 2.0 under Windows XP-7 OS has a maximum stable addressing of 1.5TB

Buy an external SATA 2.0/USB 2.0 drive enclosure. @ $25 practically anywhere.

Put a 3TB SATA 2.0/3.0 drive in your PC and make two 1.5TB partitions.

Shut your PC down and remove the newly partitioned drive.

Insert the partitioned drive in the SATA 2.0/USB 2.0 enclosure.

Connect the external drive enclosure to any USB port on your PC.

Start your PC and it will run the drives as two separate 1.5TB drives

Cheap and efficient!

PS
I am only assuming but suspect it will work with SATA 1.0 interfaces as long as you have USB 2.0 ports

[MERMITE]

Good post stomp. but! even easier, is just update to Win7.0,
both in Winxp andWin7 my 700Gb external Hd, annoys the sh!t outta me by booting annoyingly slowly (2-3secs) on each use, is used for holding data or backups not apps

I use other external Hd's for the media player, you got a media player?

and I thought we both swam in Win7.0....64bit?
"M"

[SilentTrigger]

Haveing HD's of sizes 3TB and bigger (bigger then 2.199 TB to be more exact) isn't as simple as just getting Windows 7 64 bit, it's a more complex problem even if 64 bit supports up to 16 exabytes (plus minus a few, going on memory).

[Guest001]

Yes been on W7x64 for a month now.


Most of the controllers on the older (cheaper) enclosures are restricted to 1.5TB is all "M"

Also there are workarounds needed for those 3TB drives even with W7x64 and I've heard there are lot's of issues with data error and corruption and at present

there doesn't seem to be a hardware solution any time in the future (as far as I know).


At present I just have the regular wired LCD blah blah TV set top box and DVD/USB player. I also run a WAN/LAN only (no wireless) which I share with Swifty

Helen via Bigpond cable which causes some issues when serving as we cannot get the stupid thing to give separate IP's so the Nova server goes berserk if we

both happen to be online at the same time, thankfully we let each other know before hand now and also she doesn't play that much.


I'd love a media player/server and am working on it

[MAJWIZ]

Stompem: I run a asus g50vt with 2 internal hd c: 640gb and d: 3tb
after i rewrote the bios have no problem (work for asus/tek).

[Guest001]

Are you talking Internal SATA buses or External SATA/Firewire?


The external enclosures I use are connected by USB so I can use them on just about any

PC made, I get good seek times and no need for settings in the bios thankfully.

PS
Hey MAJWIZ I understand what you're saying and I'm not trying to contradict you so good work with what you achieved there too.