P3D Re: 700GB hard drive

["wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"<wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Windows 95 usually sets the allocation unit size to 4096. Even this
>times 2^32 allocation units is 17.59 TeraBytes. That is 25 times the
>700GB drive. But I don't think that it is limited to 4096 bytes per
>allocation unit.
>
>Anyway, whenever P3d does exceed the limit you can partition the drive.
>
Tom - thanks for that explanaition. Hopefully the p3d archives
won't exceed 17 Tbytes anytime soon! 

It's strange because HD capacity is now outstripping the ability
to back them up (at least conveniently) to tape. RAID arrays
may come more strongly into favor, I'm thinking.

--BW

              Bob Wier
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   12:53 PM Monday, October 18, 1999
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