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Hard drive buying guide
We walk you through the process of buying a new hard drive, and explain all the jargon: from network-attached storage to solid-stated drives
- How do hard drives work?
- What is a solid-state drive?
- Capacity
- Interface
- PATA
- SATA2
- USB 2.0
- FireWire
- eSATA
- Network-attached storage
- Form factors
- Internal or external?
- Hard drive specifications
- RPM
- Disk cache
- Native command queuing (NCQ)
- Seek/access time
- MTBF
- Warranty
- Noise
- Buying the right hard drive
- File systems, fragmentation and slow downs
- RAID
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Comments
FAT32 theoretically has a
FAT32 theoretically has a limit of 2TB when using 512 byte sectors. Any other size limitations less than this are due to any combination of hardware, Operating System (OS) or OS utility implementation limitations. Windows 95, 98 and ME could use a maximum FAT32 partiton of 127.53GB. Even this limit could be exceeded in some circumstances which I will not detail here. These limits were rarely a problem because of disk size limitations.
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FAT32 file system
The Hard Drive Buying Guide incorrectly states that FAT32 has a limit of 32GB.
FAT32 theoretically has a limit of 2TB when using 512 byte sectors. Any other size limitations less than this are due to any combination of hardware, Operating System (OS) or OS utility implementation limitations. Windows 95, 98 and ME could use a maximum FAT32 partiton of 127.53GB. Even this limit could be exceeded in some circumstances which I will not detail here. These limits were rarely a problem because of disk size limitations.
Windows 200 and XP limit to 32GB, partitions of their own creation but will use FAT32 partitons of ANY size if created by third party programs. Microsoft imposed the 32GB partiton size creation limitation because of FAT32 performance problems which could have become a serious problem with the larger disk drives that were becoming available.
My reference is Wikipedia but there are many other references available for the searching.
Despite this "error" I found the Hard Drive Buying Guide excellent and will recommend it to others.
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