HD 1TB or greater Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

[Donald Talbert]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 08:57 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> I have now the option of buying a 500GIG  or  1TB harddisk.
> 
> Could be used on usb sometimes.
> 
> Google..seem some problems for  1TB.
> 
> Kindly some advice please.
> 
> Thanks
> Johan S
> 

It doesn't matter if its connected on USB, SATA, IDE, SCSI, or even PCI.
It'll work as long as your using a modern file-system preferably ext3 or
ext4 and your not using a old computer with old BIOS (Think 10-11~ years
old). Check out the wikipedia entries for these filesystems.

"Large file system
    The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte
(EiB) and files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes (TiB).The current
e2fsprogs can only handle a filesystem of 16 TiB,but support for larger
filesystems is under development. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

Short Answer: It'll work as a storage drive, and it'll work as a usb
boot drive as long as your not using a really really old computer. :)

Long Answer:

I think what you heard about on Google is a low level problem with older
BIOS not the operating system. Older (and I really mean old) can't
handle more than 137GB~ at boot, the current BIOS that most people have
and likely yourself has a ceiling of 2TB. From a OS software fix Linux
can work around this barrier though pretty easily. so can windows but
its a bit complex. Since your using a USB drive, I highly doubt you'd
want or plan to boot off of it. ;)

Thats why they are working on the new UEFI 'interface' to replace BIOS
which is already shipping out in the newest computers. Also the 2TB
limit ONLY applies to the boot drive. If its just a storage drive it'll
work fine. Read the UEFI wiki if you want to learn a bit more. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

Say you had a 3TB drive on BIOS, You can just make a small boot
partition then partition the rest out to /home /etc /var and so on and
it will work just fine.

But yeah, don't worry about it I have 2TB in my other workstation and
1TB in this one. Not a single issue at all. Long winded answer, but its
good to know how things work under the hood. :)

Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>
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