Only the operating system or the size of your extents imposes a limitation on the size of a primary recovery (BI) area. The maximum possible size of a BI area is 32TB. The table below lists the maximum BI area size by block size used.

Table 1. Maximum primary recovery (BI) area size
Block size Maximum BI area size
16,384 bytes (16K) 32TB
8192 bytes (8K) (default) 16TB
4096 bytes (4K) 8TB
2048 bytes (2K) 4TB
1024 bytes (1K) 2TB