How big HD can you install on windows XP

[bboldschool]

How big of HD's can you install using window XP home edition?

[SHS]

It mostly depend on the motherboard and it bios some can' t handel big disk.
Like in my case I have Intel D845WN Motherboard I had update the bios for it to work with 160GB harddrive plus I had update the OS (Win2000) which need at lease SP2 or higher and I need update motherboard chipset drivers etc, etc for all to work rigth.
Check and see if your motherboard support 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) if not then you need addon PCI IDE card.
I belive in your case you need install SP1 for XP but again this mostly depend on your motherboard.

[riekl]

I have a terrabyte for my C drive. Simple purchase of a $30 raid controller (adaptec) connected 4 250gb western digital drives to it, set it up in Raid 0 and poof a 1TB drive.

I believe right now that is about the limit you are going to see (you can of course have multiple raid controllers and multiple 1TB drives doing this)

[SHS]

2TB is max for Windows2000/XP

[riekl]

Per drive true, however i dont know of anyway to achieve 2TB on a drive unless you know of ide raid controllers with 4 interfaces ? There certainly aren't 500gb drives yet ..

(in case anyone was wondering why i have so much storage this is my main media center the tv recordings take up about 3-5% of my storage)

[SHS]

Oh there 8 channel Raid card check out 3Ware Escalade 7506-8 and there a 3TB 12 Channel card to

[gplasky]

And don't limit yourself to just ide. Scsi RAID and SCSI drives are available that allow you to daisy-chain the drives. (I didn't say it was cheap-I'm just saying it can be done. And I think I saw a firewire RAID card out there too.)


Gerry

[rrussell]

I found a firewire RAID array box.

$1700, drives extra.

Wheeeeeeeloooooooooooow!