Windows systems must use MBR partitioning for boot drives. (They can use GUID partitioning for data drives, but you can’t install Windows on a GUID partitioned drive without going to a _lot_ of trouble.) OS X prefers GUID partitioning for use as boot drives. You can boot OS X from either APT or MBR, but it’s not easy. MBR is limited to 2.1 TB; it can’t detect anything beyond that. GUID theoretically can see a lot further. (Etabytes, I think. Far more than is presently practical, anyway.)
Your Mac should not have any problem. > On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:06 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <di...@niehs.nih.gov> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am thinking about buying a 4-TB internal Seagate hard drive, model > ST4000DM000. > > Many of the comments I read online make it sound like Windows machines only > see 2-TB of this 4-TB drive. I did not see anything about macs. Do I need > to worry about this on my 2012 Mac Pro tower? > > Does anyone have this drive running on their mac, and giving them all 4 TB? > I'd just like some confirmation before buying one of these. > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
