[iyonix-support] Re: File-core limit of 256GB - is it on the list?

  • From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:06:30 +0000 (GMT)

On Mon 15 Mar 2010 21:41:43 +0000, David J. Ruck wrote:
> Roger Darlington wrote:
> > On 8 Feb 2010, David J. Ruck wrote:
> >> The real issue is there is no current RISC OS hardware than can support
> >> more than 256GB.
> > 
> > Perhaps using the USB port and FAT32FS is the hardware solution. Then 
> > perhaps we just need the easy fix doing to the 256GB filecore limit.
> > 
> > Would this be a way forward? At least as a temporary solution?
> 
> With the speed of USB attached on the Iyonix, it isn't worth bothering 
> with. You'd be 6ft under before you'd filled it.
> 
> There really isn't any point on working on OS enhancements just for the 
> sake of it. To be worth bothering with you need:-
> 
> 1) Support in hardware for >256GB at useful speeds
> 2) The ability of applications to do anything useful
>     with very large amounts of data.
Having a lot of photo's (RAW-pictures each 10 MB) I nearly reach 100 GB.
So within a few years 256 GB is to little.

> ---druck
regards
charles deckers

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