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Subject: Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?
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On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller
<mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard =
drive > 2 TB? =A0Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive f=
irmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes. =A0I know fdisk can handl=
e 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

--=20

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks
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