Maximum Hard Drive

[John W]

What is the maximum amount of hard drive space windows xp can address? I
can't find any good technical resources on it....only thing i've read was
something like 9TB but i've been unable to confirm it with another source.

 

[John John]

NTFS Size Limits

Maximum file size:
Architecturally: 16 exabytes minus 1 KB (2^64 bytes minus 1 KB)
Implementation: 16 terabytes minus 64 KB (2^44 bytes minus 64 KB)


Maximum volume size:
Architecturally: 2^64 clusters minus 1 cluster
Implementation: 256 terabytes minus 64 KB (2^32 clusters minus 1 cluster)

Files per volume:
4,294,967,295 (2^32 minus 1 file)

How NTFS Works
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...bf8e-4164-862d-dac5418c59481033.mspx?mfr=true

John

 

[Bob I]

NTFS volumes can theoretically be as large as 16 exabytes (EB), but the
practical limit is 2 terabytes.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...serv/reskit/prork/prdf_fls_zkxi.mspx?mfr=true