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July 18, 2002
The maximum size of a disk or volume, regardless of the file system, is 8,192 ExaBytes (EB), which is 2^63 bytes.
As of this writing, a dynamic disk is limited, by Disk.sys, to 2 TeraBytes (TB), 2^32 Allocation Units x 512 bytes / Allocation Unit.
Spanned and striped volumes are limited to 32 members. Thus, a dynamic volume is limited to 64 TB, 2 TB x 32.
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