Windows Server Design Limitations
Windows Server is bound by certain inherent limitations such as maximum NTFS files per volume and maximum volumes per instance. Use this section to determine if a server configuration is nearing any of these limits.
| Description | Limit |
| Maximum number of volumes on a server | Approximately 2,000 volumes. Up to 1,000 of these volumes can be dynamic volumes; the rest are basic volumes. Boot times increase as you increase the number of volumes. In addition, you must use mounted drives to access volumes when all drive letters on a server have been used. |
| Maximum size of an NTFS volume |
232 clusters minus 1 cluster
Using a 64-kilobyte (KB) cluster (the maximum NTFS cluster size), the maximum size of an NTFS volume ... |
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