Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

Chris Brennan xaero at xaerolimit.net
Fri Dec 3 16:14:23 UTC 2010


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller
> <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard
> drive > 2 TB?  Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive
> firmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes.  I know fdisk can handle
> up to 2 TB; this limit is not just for BSD but Linux too.
> >
> > Western Digital has come out with a SATA hard drive of 3 TB.
> >
> > Tom
>
> just curious if there is a 3TB disk that is NOT green.. I can only
> find the green version on newegg.com
>
> --
>

I don't believe their is one that isn't green. Even Tigerdirect lists the
3TB model as green. It also lists every model >1.5TB to be green as well....


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