Is there a maximum size (on 2TB hard disk) for iTunes folder?

I have a large music collection which I am converting and storing on my hard drive in iTunes.  Is there a limit to how much music I can store without iTunes becoming buggy?  I already have 1TB stored and will probably finish at around 1.5TB.  Does anyone know of any problems with storing this much information (music files AIFF only) Thanks

My library just crossed 350K songs on ~3TB Firewire and no problems except as what whay Limnos mentioned with the speed issue.  I recently upgraded my RAM to 8GB which helped with this. 
FYI - There are a few of us with large libraies that have had a strange intermittent permission issue after upgrading to Lion. https://discussions.apple.com/message/17623936#17623936 . Solution is to dsiable local snapshots taken by Time Machine.  All there in the thread in case you run into this,

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