Windows Filesystems Maximums
- FAT volumes have a maximum size of 4GB and a file size limit of 2GB.
- FAT32 file systems have a maximum volume size of 32GB with a file size limit of 4GB.
- NTFS volumes can be up to 2TB on an MBR disk and 16 Exabytes (EB) on GPT disks.
- The maximum size NTFS volume that has been tested by Microsoft is 16 TB.
- The maximum size of a VHD is 2040 GB (8 GB short of 2 TB).
- Microsoft iSCSI Software Target maximum VHD size is 16 TB.