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Well, the issue isn't DIRECTLY with the drive size. It's with the sector size. Most apps will expect the sectors to be 512 bytes in size but there's a limit to how many sectors can be on a disk so the absolute BIGGEST a drive can be and still use 512-byte sectors is 2TB and ANYTHING larger than that will HAVE to use larger sectors.I've 2 drives, 1 for Wii games and the other for GC, NAND and Emulators etc. I don't really use the SD except for admin stuff and older homebrew that won't run from USB.
I was thinking of buying a larger drive, and I wasn't aware of this issue, so this is excellent timing!
What's the upper limit of drive size before these problems start?
If a drive manufacturer decides to use a bigger sector size even for a smaller drive, though, it can have the same problem so, for example, if you have a 1.5TB drive that uses 4k sectors it'll present the same problems that a 4TB drive would have.
Not exactly sure about this one TBHI was also wondering which plugins and homebrew are effected?
I think it's FAIRLY simple (just my impression, though) but that also depends on how it is already programmed and what exactly it's already doing with the drive, I'm sure.edit: I wonder if the authors of the effected homebrew are aware of the issue - is it easily solvable or a hardcore rewrite?