64-bit architectures

64-bit systems are not subject to the same limitations as 32-bit systems because they use a 64-bit value to represent file sizes. On 64-bit systems such as Alpha and IA64, files can be as large as 263, 8 exabytes (EB), or 8 million TB.

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