Well, the issue is also something the empeg engineers couldn't easily address. The computing industry long ago decided to choose IDE, a notoriously shortsighted specification. The number of "limits" that have been hit on IDE, or a combination of IDE and BIOS is pretty silly. The 128GB limit is one of those, and no workaround existed when the empeg shipped.

SCSI was far better about these limits, but never had mass consumer adoption. And still had it's own set, but nowhere near the degree IDE did.