"yawnmoth" <> wrote in message
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>I was looking into buying a USB HDD enclosure and some of the ones
> that I was looking at only supported hard drives up to 500 GB. My
> question is... is that a real limitation or more of a contrived one?
>
> If you a sufficiently old game, it might, on the box, say that it only
> works on versions of Windows up to Windows 98, or something, but that
> might just mean that the game was only tested on Windows 98 and that
> it was released before any subsequent version of Windows was. As
> such, in the case of games, a game that only works up to Windows 98
> might actually work on newer versions, as well. It's also possible it
> wouldn't, but the fact that it doesn't say Windows XP shouldn't be
> taken to mean it absolutely won't work.
>
> Is this true for USB HDD enclosures, as well, or is there a more
> substantive reason why they wouldn't support higher capacity drives?
The drive controller chip in the enclosure determines the max capacity.
Suggestion: If your mobo has external SATA ports then be sure to buy a SATA
enclosure and drive. The data transfer rate is six times what usb 2.0
supports and drives up to 2TB are supported.
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