What is the maximum size hard disk support for a DELL OptiPlex GX270, running A07 bios, thanks.
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What is the maximum size hard disk support for a DELL OptiPlex GX270, running A07 bios, thanks.
Dell says Intel® Pentium® 4 and Celeron®; design http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/ug/specs.htm
So that is new enough to take the 1 TB hdds. Going by the fact the P4came out after the 48-bit was added to most BIOS if i remember right.
I believe the maximum NTFS partition size is 2TB (terabytes) or 2,199,023,255,552 bytes, (~2,000GB gigabytes).
The theroretical maximum size is 144PB (petabytes), though in practice there are other limitations even if such a drive were available. It means that you can fit any size of currently available drive though.
Yes, the 2TB limit is there, Why you run into trouble when you try to RAID-0 two TB hdds.
Found it
Choosing Between FAT and NTFS
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/arc...eploy/fat.mspx
Quote:
The maximum size of an NTFS partition is 16 EB (exabytes—an exabyte is 2^64 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes).
2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,600,000 bytes
More: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
So we won't need to start moaning about that limitation until next year then? :D
:D More than likely. You're looking at more than 35 million 500GB hard drives worth of storage.18,446,744,073,709,600,000 / 500,000,000,000 = 36,893,488
Boy, they need to get started on the pci cards. :D
:) Going to need something much faster than anything available today.
If it takes say 15 minutes to defrag 500GB, it would take over 1,000 years to defrag 16EB. :(
Wow, that really brings it home just how big a drive of that size would really be :eek:
Right?
Wonder how long it'd take to back it all up to DVDs? :D
How much would the ecetric bill for the server be? Stick shock for sure.
500GB hard drives pull right at 9 watts. (Western Digital = 8.40 watts and Seagate = 9.30 watts).
36,893,488 500GB hard drives at 9 watts each equals 332,041,392 watts, or 332 megawatts.
25 megawatts is the equivalent of about 33,500 horsepower. Pratt & Whitney jet engines used in Boeing 747s produce about 34,100 horsepower on take off.
So, you'd need at least 13 Pratt & Whitney 747 jet engines running flat out to generate the 332 megawatts required to run 36,893,488 500GB drives.
At 6809 MW, no problem. :)