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Maximum size hard drive for my PC? (Linux?)

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Superwormy

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So, Dell tells me that the max. hard drive size for my Dimension 4600 is 250gb. But I have two 320gb drives on SATA in software RAID on Mandriva Linux in it now, and they seem to work just fine.

Is this Dell being stupid?
Is this a Windows-specific limit?
Am I going to be able to put 2x 1tb drives in it and have it work without issues?
 
The drive size the manufacturer lists is always the max size available when it was ordered, not what can be installed in a system. You already know your system can accept larger hard drives.
 
Not sure about 1TB drives, but on recent hardware (say 2 years or newer) it should be able to access any size drive.
Only very early chipsets for IDE or possibly SATA would not be able to address the large drives. Drive controllers need
to be 48 Bit and the OS patched (SP1 or later for XP) in order to see over 137GB drives (SP4 for Windows 2000)
 
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