How to determine the allowable size limit of the connected hard drive?

Question

linux

There is a file washer on Linux (Debian), I want to put a 4TB HDD there (a second, non-boot disk). Are there any hardware or other insurmountable limitations?

Answer 1

Hardware restrictions: The current addressing standard (2003) LBA-48 requires 48-bit block abrades, i.e. 2^48 blocks - devices up to 128 PiB.
Software: The
old MBR is limited to 2.2TB, there is one. It will be necessary to mark the disk in GPT, there are 64-bit addresses.
Debian is not strange windows for you, but normal Linux. There are no crazy restrictions on the use of GPT. Though system, even boot, even with UEFI, even with BIOS - he doesn't care. It will load and work as if nothing had happened.

Answer 2

Well, the BIOS may not determine the exact size of the disk, the OS will determine and will work (the limits there are so prohibitive that there will not be such disks for a long time.)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

increasing the maximum volume of one disk partition to 1 exbibyte (260 bytes) with a block size of 4 kibibytes;
increasing the size of one file up to 16 tebibytes (244 bytes);

Answer 3

No limits