Using 4TB drives

I'm about to buy a 4TB hard drive for my home server which is running Debian. From what I understand that I have to use GPT to partition it in order to access the full 4TB.

I intend on adding it as a network drive with samba. Will other operating systems such as Windows work when mounting the drive, or will I have to perform any other steps to get it all working?

Hmm yeah i really want to know too is it safe now to buy bigger then 2TB? i still feel unsafe with the idea myself.

Yes, Windows 7 and newer you will be fine.

The reliability on them has gone up, but if you just put 4TB on a drive with no back up you are a fool!

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Sweet!

I'd prefer to get a 2TB but after this drive, I'm out of SATA ports on my motherboard, and I know I'm gonna need the space.

Unless there are other ways of adding SATA ports or drives then I'm going to get the 4.

I have read about using PCI cards, but that presents another problem as I only have one (used) PCI Express slot.

I wish I had more money, because then I'd just replace the lot!

Backups are always wise whatever you do...Everyone learns that the hardway!

I right now just splitted my server in 3 HDD of 2TB and in partitions of 1TB.
But good to know reliability gone up. I still hear Bill Gates saying 20 mb is most we ever need....

If you need that much storage you might want to upgrade the older drives to larger capacities, obviously when you can spare the cash.

20mb is fine...for CPU cache

hehe yeah but he said that i think in 93 with the rise of 3.11....
but to be honest i probably installed way too much games from floppy swapping.

It seems that leaders of technology never quite see the needs of consumer in the long run. They tend to not see the value of expanded storage, more bandwidth, higher resolution, etc... but hopefully consumers keep demanding MOAR!

I find it scary. I know that if 10 MB of data is leaked from a network its huge....Let alone say 10GB of user names and addressees.....

but nvm >< going off topic.....

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What format and partition table you use won't affect how other devices see it on the network. Samba works on top of the file system so as long as the devices have smb they will be able to read and write to the share.

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Thanks everyone, got it working without a hitch

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