Hardware constraint on HDD size

[onthell]

I want to get a 1TB SATA HDD(32M)

any constraint on the motherboard and OS, or any other hardware constraint?

my motherboard is ASUS P5K SE
OS: Windows Vista Business

 

[rozar]

The only limit would be the 2TB limit for the Master Boot Record partition of a 32 bit OS. Your 1TB hard drive will work fine.

 

[chookman]

Vista supports GPT disks so you can get around the 2TB limitation of the MBR with is anyways

 

[rozar]

Vista can only boot from a GPT disk if your system uses Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) instead of BIOS.

So in most cases the Partition a 32 bit system boots from will be MBR and can only be 2tb (2048mb). All other partitions can still be GPT and up to 256TB in Vista.

 

[chookman]

^good point forgot to mention that.