4 terabyte hard drive limit

[rasputinnovgorod]

My new motherboard came with two on-board harddrive raid controllers,
for a possible total of 10 sata drives. Now that 1-terabyte drives are getting
down to near $100, I never need to run out of space again.

Except: last night I read that Suse Linux has 4 terabyte hard drive limit.
Is that true? Is the limit per computer, per drive, or per controller?

Does anyone know Windows 7's (forgive me for blaspheming) limit?

Thanks
/blair

[oz]

You can find the maximum file size and volume size limit for various file systems here:

Comparison of file systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I suppose a system BIOS might have limitations as well, but I'm not sure about it.

[gogalthorp]

Depends on the block size and the file system ext3 with 1K blocks it is 4 Ter per device. With 4K blocks it is 32 Ter per device.

Note that the real limit is on the number of addressable blocks.

With ext4 the max volume size is 1 Eib (1 exbibyte = 2^60 bytes = 1152921504606846976bytes = 1,024 pebibytes)

Is that enough for you LOL

[linuxforever]

But I thought that volume size means partition size.
I.e not device size?
That would mean you don't have a problem.