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

[Warpme]

On 8/18/12 7:33 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> I had a 1.5T drive that is dying and I thought I'd get a 3T to replace
> it, cos I can. Or I thought I could. I went to a local PC store today
> and confidently requested a 3T drive I knew they had in stock. The guy
> behind the counter wanted me to assure him that my motherboard would
> support 3T. Not wanting to buy a pup and not knowing the answer, but
> knowing the motherboard is 3 years old I came home and started
> researching.
>
> My research confuses me. From what I have read this is a problem
> related to MBR and there is no problem if you use GPT. I won't be
> booting from this disk, and I'll probably partition it to at least two
> partitions if not more.
>
> However, as I say, I am confused. I have been contemplating a new
> motherboard anyway as I need more SATA headers, but I don't really
> want to do that yet (budget).
>
> Can anyone clear up whether I need to worry about this if I use a gpt
> partition table? Or do I really have to worry about BIOS and Chipset
> issues?
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Nick,
Such big drives are probably with advanced format (have 4k phy sectors) 
- so Pls remember about partition alignment.
When I replaced my recordings drive to WDgreen 3T I found GPT fdisk 
(gdisk) as easiest tool for doing this properly...
good luck

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