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Windows knows...

I once had an ntfs corruption of some sort that caused explorer to report the size of an illicit jpeg as something like 4PB. I'd say that, based on that, it should know what a TB is. I find it a tad odd that it can have a 4PB file though, when the array size was limited to 2TB on that machine... Either way, that has to be the most porn I've ever had.

Coincidentally, does anyone else remember the last 5 platter deskstars? You might know them better by the name "Deathstar." I know that over the 3 year warranty period on mine I had to RMA it 4 times for rampant bad sectors. Then again the last replacement was made soon after Hitachi took over, and its lasted about 3 years since then - 289 day uptime on that box too.

- Nex

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