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How to find the Maximum EIDE Drive Capacity for Motherboards

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GPSIM Original post #1
Aug 26, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Dear Friends!

I would like to know what is the Maximum Capacity of EIDE Hard Drive & Type [either Speed 5400 or 7200]which can support to the following specification of Desktop System.

Intel Desktop Board 810E
Celeron 533 MHz
Bus Speed 66 MHz
Cache 128 kB

Please advise me how to find generally the maximum Hard Disk Drive capacity for any PC System depend on the basic system parameters.

Thanks & Best Regards
SANJEEVAN
ECE0105
ECE0105 #2
Sep 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM
810e supports a max of 80Gb I believe.
I am not really sure how it is calculated, but I guess it depends on Technology available at the time the board is manufactured.