Paging anyone at OWC - Neptune Enclosure Question

[kj4btkljv]

I've got a couple of the FireWire Neptune external enclosures, and I was thinking about swapping the drives already in them with larger capacity drives. Before I go and buy some of the big ones (1.5 or 2TB), I was wondering if these enclosures even supported those sizes.

One case currently has a 1TB drive, the other is a 750GB drive. Will the Neptune cases support anything larger than 1TB?

Thanks for your help!

Jeff

[jdc]

They should no problem.

SATA doesnt have limits like PATA did.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

There might be a problem with the upcoming 3 TB drives, but that is expected to be more of a 32 bit PC motherboard limitation than a Mac problem.

[silvarios]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
There might be a problem with the upcoming 3 TB drives, but that is expected to be more of a 32 bit PC motherboard limitation than a Mac problem.

More info please. I'm too lazy to internet search at the moment, but not lazy enough to not post this request. Strange, no?

[kj4btkljv]

jdc wrote:
They should no problem.

SATA doesnt have limits like PATA did.

I guess I just want to make sure the controllers in these cases are compatible with drives this large.

Any ideas about that?

Jeff

[kj4btkljv]

silvarios wrote:
More info please.

Like this?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/196486/fu...stems.html

Jeff

[Filliam H. Muffman]

kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
More info please.

Like this?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/196486/fu...stems.html

Jeff
Nobody knows for sure yet. Will it be that only PPC machines have problems with 3 TB like the pre MDD machines had with over 137 GB? Will it be all 32 bit Macs can not read the full thing? I know some people with G5 machines that have arrays over 2 TB, but will it be a seamless transition to 3 TB drives? I expect any recent Intel EFI motherboard should be okay. Maybe only people with the early Core Duo Macs, Dell Mini 9, and LGA775 G3x Northbridge Hackintosh computers will have problems.

I will fire up the Larry signal to see if he has any insights.

[silvarios]

Thanks for the links and info.

[hal]

It looks like it's only the archaic formatting used by windows up until win7 that is the problem. Pretty darned sure that this poses no problems for any mac that can now take a 2TB drive.

[OWC Larry]

I would agree with that.... Even a 1990s G3 Mac can address an 8TB FireWire hard drive volume without issue.

We also see no issue with SATA and SATA II controllers in any Mac (where that controller is compatible...) and Mac OS regardless of single volume size (including externals up to 8TB which are represented as single drive - not port multiplier split - so it sees it like it's a single 8TB hard drive)...

Should not be an issue at all.

hal wrote:
It looks like it's only the archaic formatting used by windows up until win7 that is the problem. Pretty darned sure that this poses no problems for any mac that can now take a 2TB drive.