[mythtv-users] Hitachi 3T drives - reliable?

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 13:42:22 UTC 2011


Hi

On 20 January 2011 13:49, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> For whatever reason, 2TB seems to be a common limit (I know it is in older
> versions of Windows). 2TB is 2^31 bytes, so the maximum value for a signed
> 32 bit integer.

sure, but those are block devices. So the limitation is 2^31 sectors;
with 4kB sectors, you have a long way to go after 3TB no ?


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