Max HDD for 32 Bit Ubuntu?

**DMGrier** · March 6th, 2013

I plan on buying a refurb desktop from newegg.com to literally just run Plex 24/7. I have over the years collected a ton of movies and TV show and I love running Plex on the laptop but I do notice it uses a little more resources and I don't want to be running my laptop all the time. So I plan on buying the refurb in the link and install Ubuntu 12.04 and run plex of it but I am going to need some decent HDD space. Could I install at least 1 TB of HDD running Ubuntu 12.04 32 Bit?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883256261

**Redalien0304** · March 6th, 2013

says 4oGb on page just take windows off it wasy

**DMGrier** · March 6th, 2013

Originally Posted by alien0304

says 4oGb on page just take windows off it wasy

I need more then 40 GB, I need something like 1 terabyte. So I want to install a terabyte HDD and install Ubuntu 12.04 32 Bit. I was wondering what is the max HDD 32 bit Ubuntu can see and use?

**tgalati4** · March 6th, 2013

According to wikipedia:

The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte (EiB) and files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes (TiB). Your machine's BIOS will probably recognize a much smaller drive. Machines of that era could normally take multiples of 40GB: 80GB, 160GB, maybe 320GB. You can try researching the BIOS updates (on HP's website) to see what the largest supported drive is. You can put a SATA card in it and probably detect 1 or 2 TB drives.