If the theoretical maximum volume is close to 8 EB, then how does one get 4TB HDDs to show more than 2.2TB? As it stands, OS X 10.6.8 will not allow partitions greater than 2.2 TB. So is there some setting someplace that I am missing?

If the theoretical maximum volume is close to 8 EB, then how does one get 4TB HDDs to show more than 2.2TB? As it stands, OS X 10.6.8 will not allow partitions greater than 2.2 TB. So is there some setting someplace that I am missing?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), RAID 0+1

Posted on Nov 15, 2013 10:29 AM

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If the theoretical maximum volume is close to 8 EB, then how does one get 4TB HDDs to show more than 2.2TB? As it stands, OS X 10.6.8 will not allow partitions greater than 2.2 TB. So is there some setting someplace that I am missing?

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