{"id":12803,"date":"2001-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=12803"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"there-size-limit-for-hard-drives-hd24","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/there-size-limit-for-hard-drives-hd24\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a size limit for hard drives in HD24?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current ATA specification for the maximum size of IDE drives is 137GB, but this is likely to change soon. The ADAT\/FST file system could support drives up to 2.2TB (2200 GB), and a firmware upgrade would make larger sizes available to the HD24. Common limitations on hard drive sizes for FAT32, HFS, etc. are not applicable. 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