External HDD

[novgrod]

Hey crew, I'm for the first time in my life actually planning on buying an external HDD. I'm thinking hardware support likely won't be an issue, but I would like some recommendations. Anyone have something in the 500 gb+ range that they'd recommend?

Of course, that does beg to ask:
does ext3 support 1 tb volumes?

[Snowhog]

Re: External HDD

does ext3 support 1 tb volumes?

Size limits
ext3 has a maximum size for both individual files and the entire filesystem. For the filesystem as a whole that limit is 2**31-1 blocks. Both limits are dependent on the block size of the filesystem; the following chart summarizes the limits[12]:

[b]Block size Max file size Max filesystem size[/b]
1KiB   16GiB    <2TiB
2KiB   256GiB    <4TiB
4KiB   2TiB     <8TiB
8KiB   2TiB     16TiB

It should be noted that the 8 KiB block size is only available on architectures which allow 8 KiB pages (such as Alpha).