[citation][nom]ready4dis[/nom]This isn't the first time you brought up EFI, and it's not the first time you put out the exact same wrong information. The BIOS IS NOT THE LIMITING FACTOR FOR THE 2TB windows problems. If it was, nothing would be able to access a 2TB drive, clearly that isn't the case. There is no hard drive limit, there is simply a limit in the way partitions are handled. It has nothing to do with the bios, or the hardware. It's a software implementation issue. There have been workarounds for years, please stop putting out mis-information. If you really don't know anything about it, maybe you should let someone else post the news who has a clue.Before you do any more news on the subject, please read up on MBR's and GPT's, and find out where the 2TB problem arises. It has nothing to do with the BIOS, nothing nothing nothing. I read news here all the time, and some of it is great, but spreading misinformation, when you've already been corrected isn't acceptable.[/citation]
Hogwash.
BIOS uses Master Boot Records (MBR) to boot from a drive. The MBR is 512 bytes of which 64 bytes is the partition table, 16 bytes to fully describe each partition's attributes, so you only have 8 bytes to point at each partition's location and size. Only 4 bytes of that can be used to point at each partition's beginning sector. Four bytes is 32 bits, so you can address 2**32 sectors and (2**32)*512 bytes (since there are 512 bytes/sector) = 2.2 E12 or about 2 TB (maximum addressable disk size and also partition size since 4 bytes is also allowed to describe each partition's size with BIOS and MBR).
It's a very cut and dry 2TB limitation baked into BIOS. I discovered this rather painfully with my last build when I tried to use a single 6Tb array. Quite disappointing.
Now once you have booted from a 2TB or smaller partition using windows/macos/linux/name your bootloader you can use software to mount a GPT partition that exceeds 2Tb. You still cannot boot from a partition greater than 2Tb. There's nothing to argue about here, try it and find out for yourself.