Re: Maximum HDD sizes?

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From: Willie Yeo
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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   Also have to remember that back then, to have a 1Gb harddisk you 
possibly either have a sugar daddy or a money tree in your backyard.

In article <141120001204021973%matreya@remove_mac.com>, Jason Haines 
<matreya@remove_mac.com> wrote:

> In article <3A108F08.123C175B@chem.usyd.edu.au>, Technicians
> <jeffa@chem.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > It is my understanding that any size is possible under the older (pre 
> > OS 8)
> > OS's as long as you partition the drive into 2GB partitions. Correct me 
> > if I'm
> > wrong as I'm always willing to learn
> 
> Yes, I think that is true, but the allocation block size would be huge,
> making minimum file sizes large and wasting good disk space.
> 
> HFS+ is the way to go.

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From: Willie Yeo <willie@singapore.com>
Subject: Re: Maximum HDD sizes?
Date: 2000/11/18
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