The main issue I see with big drives, is the design of the player whereby it likes to put EVERYTHING (tunes, playlists, tag files) into one HUGE MASSIVE OVERSIZED LINEARLY INEFFICIENT directory.

Ext2 doesn't seem to cope well with this (linear filename lookups?), but at the time the player software was designed, drives were a heck of a lot smaller, so no fault there.

I might fix this someday in kernel space (by transparently multiplexing files into subdirectories, unbeknownst to the player software), as it could really speed up database rebuilds, syncs, and filesystem checks.

Especially on 128GB+ drives.

Cheers