WINDOWS 11 MAXIMUM DISK SIZE

[drek4]

I know that the maximum disk size for Windows 10 is 16TB if using GPT, but I fail to find any information for the maximum disk size for Windows 11.

 

[RaiderGamer]

16TB seems to small. as there is already 20TB drives on the market

 

[drek4]

16TB seems to small. as there is already 20TB drives on the market

I just found here that you can go up to 9.4 billion TB in GPT, I find it hard to believe, but then that would be awesome if true.

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[RaiderGamer]

I just found here that you can go up to 9.4 billion TB in GPT, I find it hard to believe,

8K 500FPS rtx virtual reality internet will need at least 2 billion TB lol

 

[drek4]

8K 500FPS rtx virtual reality internet will need at least 2 billion TB lol

No rush for me, just started playing some games in 1440P, but mostly still with 1080P and that's fine with me, but always nice to have extra storage for games that get larger in volume every year.
Most of my films are in 720P (80%) & 1080P (20%), just started streaming in 1080P now that I upgraded to unlimited, but when I game I make sure other streamers are in 720P.

 

[RaiderGamer]

No rush for me, just started playing some games in 1440P, but mostly still with 1080P and that's fine with me, but always nice to have extra storage for games that get larger in volume every year.
Most of my films are in 720P (80%) & 1080P (20%), just started streaming in 1080P now that I upgraded to unlimited, but when I game I make sure other streamers are in 720P.

i have 8TB of movies

2500 1080p files

 

[badboy2k]

the 16TB limit is in MBR so 32 sectors in 4kbytes large sectors.

GPT is upto 9.4 EB on standard partition of 64 sectors of 512bytes and if you go to 4kbytes its ridiculously large (way in excess of 100EB)

 

[drek4]

the 16TB limit is in MBR so 32 sectors in 4kbytes large sectors.

GPT is upto 9.4 EB on standard partition of 64 sectors of 512bytes and if you go to 4kbytes its ridiculously large (way in excess of 100EB)

Thanks for the info, should be alright for a while!

 

[badboy2k]

Thanks for the info, should be alright for a while!

by a while you mean probably the next 50-150 years lol.

 

[drek4]

i have 8TB of movies

2500 1080p files

I have a little more than 2400 movies, but if I add Porn, docs and youtube videos, then in excess of 3000.

 

[drek4]

by a while you mean probably the next 50-150 years lol.

I don't think I will live long enough to see the need for larger than this

 

[badboy2k]

i would say so as in GPT its 9,400,000 TB for 64 sectors of 512bytes per drive and if you go to 4kbytes it gets very silly very fast.

you would need 2,937,500,000 1080p files to fill that on a single drive (64 sectors of 512bytes per drive) lol

that would be a little over 500,000 Years of solid Video on a single drive LMMFAO

 

[drek4]

i would say so as in GPT its 9,400,000 TB for 64 sectors of 512bytes per drive and if you go to 4kbytes it gets very silly very fast.

you would need 2,937,500,000 1080p files to fill that on a single drive lol

I dread to think of the time it would take to download all those files

 

[badboy2k]

I dread to think of the time it would take to download all those files

yep its 500,000 Years of solid Video at 1080p on the 512bytes ones and if you went to 4kbytes it would be somewhere in the 5+ million year play range LMAO

 

[badboy2k]

just out of curiosity i did a calculation of the time it would take on a solid Gigabit connection working at max speed to download that for a single drive and would be around 2600 Years to fill it.

 

[drek4]

just out of curiosity i did a calculation of the time it would take on a solid Gigabit connection working at max speed to download that for a single drive and would be around 2600 Years to fill it.

Over 60 generations at that speed, totally insane

 

[badboy2k]

Over 60 generations at that speed, totally insane

yep if using GPT I think no-one has anything to worry about for quite some time unless people get solid Terabit internet connections anything over GPT is not going to become a issue for a very long time (at that it would be 2.6 years of solid download) so would probably have to be in the 10-100 Terabit range to need more in reality.

 

[bkrucke157102d7]

Not so. I just built a I9 system and a fresh install of the latest window 10 pro would not recognize my 16tb drive. It would show up in Bios, but not in windows 10.
Intel Core i9-12900KF
MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi ProSeries Motherboard
CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 32GB
Crucial P3 Plus 2TB Gen4 M.2 SSD
Seagate 8TB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate 10TB SATA Hard Drive

I know that the maximum disk size for Windows 10 is 16TB if using GPT, but I fail to find any information for the maximum disk size for Windows 11.

System.