Max hard drive for presario cq57

I have the compaq presario cq57 notebook with 250 gig hd and 4gig mem. Since 4gig is the max for mem what is max for hard drive?
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As big as you can find that is 2.5 inch wide 9.5 mm thick and SATA. I think they go up to 1 or 1.5 terrabytes now. 
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