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

[Nick Rout]

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?