HD 1TB or greater Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

[Johan Scheepers]

On 06/22/11 18:47, Donald Talbert wrote:
> 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>
Good day,

There was a response beyond expectations about this matter.
Now I am positive about a 1TB HD.
Thanks to all those members.
Regards
Johan S