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Raspberry Pi 2 1GB

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does anyone know when installing retropie using an externally powered hd via a USB port what is the biggest size it will accept.

  • Hello Charles,

     

    I think there is not a particular limit as the accepted size depends on the operating system charactirsitcs. I have used a PI 2 with the same configuration as yours with a 500 Gb and 1 Tb hard disk without problems.

     

    Enrico

  • The 'pi runs Linux. A reasonably recent version of the kernel. So for "bigger" systems it has already been necessary for a while to "fix" the limits that are encountered at 2T(*) and 16Tb(#). So... my guess is that you're good for a few Pb.... (<- more disk than you can afford to buy.... if you sell the house). 

     

    (*) 32 bit block numbers, where the blocks are 512 bytes.

    (#) Something to do with the ext3/ext4 filesystem.