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Thread ID: 110129 2010-06-04 11:31:00 Enclosures/Docks - HDD size limitation? Nomad (952) Press F1
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1106811 2010-06-04 11:31:00 Hi, these products say 1TB may be the max size. Any truth in it?

In the future I people would get larger ......
Nomad (952)
1106812 2010-06-04 20:42:00 I people will get larger? What are ipeople?
Mac addicts?

Actually there is probably some truth in it, the max size used to be smaller though.
pctek (84)
1106813 2010-06-04 21:35:00 a mistype :) Nomad (952)
1106814 2010-06-05 00:05:00 ipeople, I like it. ipeople own imacs, ipods and iphones. pctek (84)
1106815 2010-06-05 23:30:00 <Fyad> When I bought siemens cellphone, siemens sold its cellular section. When I bought yakumo screen, yakumo got bunkrupt. When I bought fujitsu-siemens laptop, siemens sold its share.
<Fyad> Just curious what to buy next...
<r_heart> apple
<hoobsta> Apple
<sailo> apple

:D
Agent_24 (57)
1106816 2010-06-06 01:29:00 I have a 1.5TB drive in an enclosure that said max 1TB (and I have had no problems with it) so I guess it was the biggest capacity on the market when the enclosure was produced. jwil1 (65)
1106817 2010-06-06 10:44:00 I have Vantec Nexstar eSATA docks - they work fine with 1.5 TB WD drives.

The WD HDDs are jumpered for single partition as required for XP.

(The 1.5TB WD drives get their extra capacity by using 4kiB sectors with more efficient error correction. The easiest way to use them with XP is to format them as one partition and jumper them as per instructions)
BBCmicro (15761)
1106818 2010-06-07 06:15:00 Sometimes it is a chipset limitation, I have seen it with older enclosures, so just be aware of that. Deimos (5715)
1106819 2010-06-07 12:06:00 Yeah most of the time there is a hardware limit .

I haven't seen any yet that have upgradeable firmware either
Agent_24 (57)
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