[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - adding 3T drives

[Mark Boyum]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
> > Nick Rout wrote:
> >>
> >> I won't be
> >> booting from this disk
> >
> >
> > Then you shouldn't have any problems.
> >
> > Doug
>
> A tiny caveat--you can still use MBR if you want (but GPT is highly
> recommended), but with MBR you can't have any partitions that have
> their beginning past the 2 TB point.
>
> Karl
>
>
I have a pair of 3TB drives installed in an old Dell Dimension 8400.  It
might be as much as five years old.  YMMV but I wouldn't think it would be
an issue on a newer computer.
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