[sdw2003] WinNT Disk Size ...

[Kinzer, Lowell]

> -----Original Message-----
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:35:05 PM PDT
> From: "Todd Walton" <tdwalton at gmail.com>
> To: "San Diego Windows 2003 User Group" <sdw2003 at mattware.com>
> Subject: Re: [sdw2003] WinNT Disk Size ...
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Bac Nguyen 
> <surfup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > A friedn of mine has a WinNT 4.0 SP6 server (don't ask 
> why he still using
> > > it). He runs out of space and want to add another hard disk
> (master/slave)
> > > and he wants to buy a 500GB IDE hard drive. But, I 
> warning him that the
> > > WinNT server OS might not see it - assume that the 
> computer BIOS will see
> > > the disk. So, the question is how big the disk (or 
> partition) can WinNT
> see
> > > it?
> > 
> > It says here:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
> > 
> > that:
> > "The NTFS driver for Windows NT limits the volume size that it can
> > handle to 256 TiB and the file size to 16 TiB respectively"
> > 
> > -todd
> >
> From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com 
> [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com] On Behalf Of Ben 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:07 PM
> To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
> Subject: Re: [sdw2003] WinNT Disk Size ...
> 
> 
> I guess we all agree that 500 GB of data in one single hard 
> drive with no
> redundancy is not in line with best practices. However, your 
> friend knows
> better than any of us the type of data that will go in there, 
> maybe it is all
> read only and fully rebuildable with tolerance for down time. 
> In which case
> the single 500 GB HD is acceptable.
> 
> If possible, I'd break that 500 GB HD in 2 x 250 GB 
> partitions. Recovering a
> damaged partition is going to be twice as fast if he ever 
> needs to do it.
> 
> Ben
> 

NT 4.0--that's a blast from the past. Keep in mind that NT has some
limitations in regards to system partition size. See the following
Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for more information:

Windows NT 4.0 supports maximum of 7.8-GB system partition
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224526>

Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Hard Disk
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197667/EN-US/>

Cheers,

Lowell