[Sp3ctrum]

Okay So I've been looking recently at a Multimedia DVR enclosure which can be found here: http://www.chinavasion.com/product_i...deo-recording/

For those of you who don't know, this is just a DVR/Multimedia Player without a Hard Drive. I own the Hard Drive and plan on installing manually.

The specs for the supported Hard Drive are as follows:

• SATA 3.5 Inch HDD Enclosure
• Max HDD Size: 500GB
• Max Partition Size: 40GB
• FAT32 file system

My main question is quite simple. I have an IDE Hard Drive and I was wondering if I could simply buy some sort of adapter to convert SATA hook-ups for an IDE HDD.

My other question concerns the Hard Drive capacity limit in relation to the Max Partition Size. Does this really mean that I have to create 12 separate 40 gb partition to take full advantage of my 500 gb hard drive? This makes no sense to me at all. Especially since I'm going to be using it for other content such as software/documents. Does this have to do with it only supporting Fat32 File systems? If I'm misinterpreting anything I'm reading I would be more than happy if somebody were to tell me I'm wrong. Please shed some light on this subject if you wouldn't mind. Thanks!

P.S. If you need any further elaboration just ask...

[fairnooks]

You can get IDE to SATA converter boards that pop on the back or come off in tails but I would really take a look at space available and such for if you're trying to fit all that into a DVR. Formatting to FAT32 in Windows is limited to 32 gigs per partition actually, but there's a program called SwissKnife that can quick format any size drive it can recognize to FAT32. It might depend on what the specs actually apply to though since there may be other restrictions depending on use.