Largest hard drive in a 630? — #22

Post #22 by johnklos

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	68k
Post Date	Sat, 26 Sep 2009 - 01:49
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/largest-hard-drive-in-a-630.12469/

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I believe it's the file system (HFS/HFS+?) that has the 4TB Limit. It would be interesting to see what the next version of File system apple is gonna come out with if HFS+ limit ever gets released. I am thinking they would go with eFS if anything. (I think I did that right. It might be ExtFS+ or something)

HFS is limited to 2 gigabytes. HFS+ used to be limited to 2 terabytes because it allowed for up to 2^32 blocks, the same as original SCSI-2, but that's been updated. I have a couple of arrays with single HFS+ volumes in excess of 25 terabytes.