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2005/4/20-21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37275 Activity:low
4/19    I went to Fry's today and saw a 400GB HD by Seagate, with 5 years
        warranty!!! That is just amazing. By the way, what is the current MB
        limitation on size? I remember back in the 90s I had to get special
        HD card to go above 4G, and then in the late 90s a special card to
        go above 80G. I'm just wondering what the current limitation is.
        \_ Why would there be a limitation? Granted, I always buy SCSI.
           BTW, 5 year warranty is standard. I am going to guess that you
           went to Fry's today and it got you all excited, huh? Calm down.
           \_ 5 years is not even close to standard, for IDE anyway.
              \_ I wouldn't know about IDE crap.
        \_ A year or 2 ago you could buy motherboards with a 137GB
           limitation (128*2^30bytes).  Except for a few external enclosures,
           you shouldn't have to worry about it.