I was reading another thread where someone mentioned they were still using WinXP for business use. I know this is happening, my own workplace is still running WinXP. At home I am on Vista. Anyway, they said that they had to deal with the 2TB limit per volume. So I was thinking what if they had Windows7 and configured the Drobo as a 16TB volume, via thin-provisioning?
And then used the Windows7 “XP mode”? Could you continue to run you older WinXP programs and access the 16TB Drobo accurately?
The setup you’ve described will work just fine as:
XP Mode’s virtual hard disk consists of ordinary files within your host’s filesystem.
If you’d like to expose Drobo contents to your virtual machine, it’ll be presented as a special kind of network drive which is not subject to XP’s limitations on NTFS volume sizes.