JSI Tip 5530. What is the maximum size of dynamic disks and dynamic volumes in Windows 2000?

Jerold Schulman

July 18, 2002

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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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