[mythtv-users] Need advice re: expand/replacement storage

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/24/2013 03:01 PM, Craig Huff wrote:
> I am looking to expand my recording storage space.  I seem to recall 
> some past threads on the list talking about issues with drives whose 
> capacity is something greater than 1TB, but I don't remember what the 
> threshold was nor what the issue(s) might be.
>
> FWIW, my mobo is an ASUS A8N-SLI which supports SATA-I/II, and I'm 
> still running Ubuntu 10.04/MythTV 0.23.
>
> I'm also concerned with the possibility that I might have issues with 
> SATA-III (6Gb/s) drives working on this system.  Are they backward 
> compatible with SATA-II?
>
> I am considering adding a 2TB WD disk to my system (WD2002FAEX).
>
> What, if any, problems might I run into?

There are no problems with any disk (or array) size on current MythTV 
versions.

On old versions with 32-bit compiles, there were problems with some 
sizes due to an overflow issue (but not 2TB or less).

That said, I /still/ recommend upgrading to 0.26--the currently 
supported version.

Mike