Something for the Gurus
I am running out of space on my office server and believe both Windows XP (workstations) and Server 2003 R1 have a 2 TB limit on the size of hard drive they can access
If I add an eSATA drive box set up as raid 5 with 4 x 1TB disks to the server (which is R2, so it should see 3 TB) will the XP clients see the drive:
a) at all
b) as its actual size
c) as 2TB (and what happens when the data goes into the third TB?!)
Ta
Tim
I’ll second that. It’s worked well for me in the past.
IIRC, as long as your SBS has SP1 (or SP2) it should be able to use the whole array because it supports GPT disks.
However, the XP (presumably 32-bit?) machines only support MBR disks and the limit is 2.2TB so I would assume XP would see only 2.2TB physically present (like pre-SP1 where you could only ‘see’ 137GB).
The way out may be to carve up the array using SBS and present it as shares rather than addressing it directly.
Ha - Top man 
I’ll give it a go