What is the largest capacity I can use in RTV4xxx or RTV5xxx series?
Sonic Blue is shipping units with 320GB of space, so there should be no problems below that. These units have much more memory than the 30xx series, so they should be able to handle 2 of whatever drives are currently available. Right now that is 160GB x 2 = 320GB, but you likely will be able to go much higher when larger drives become available. (Nov 2002 update: 250GB drives are now available and reportedly work.) • What is the largest capacity I can use in RTV30xx series? You can use up to 137GB drives on RTV20xx, RTV30xx and ShowStoppers. With 2 of these drives in your system you could get up to 274 hours of storage. The sector address limitation on the EIDE standard means that the addressable limit is 131,072 MB (literally 255 * 2^20), so using 160GB or larger drives requires some IDE interface and/or BIOS changes, and this won’t happen in the older units. The RTVPatch program (use version 2.4 or later) automatically limits the used space to 137GB, so it is possible to use 137GB of
