Large hard drive recommendations please

[davehaze]

Hi all, would like some recommendations for a large hard drive with low power consumption to store downloads on. Looked at some Western Digital green drives in the 2 terabyte range that looked promising. Running Windows XP home edition (32bit) and was wondering if there would be any issues with the OS seeing and formatting these large drives? Thanks!

 

[war9200]

Any drive <= 2TB should work fine on XP, just don't go above 2TB.
As far as low power consumption you'd probably want a Samsung/WD/Seagate low power drive.

 

[sub.mesa]

You need XP SP1 to recognise HDDs above 128GiB; so XP RTM does not support such disks. Also you have issues with alignment; best would be not to use any jumper but use MagicParted to create an aligned partition and let XP use that.

 

[Jesse B]

I'd go with the 2TB Samsung F4. It's a low RPM drive with wicked performance.