3TB disk in an old computer

[ArisVer]

I have an HP xw6600 workstation running Windows Server 2012. I am thinking of buying a 3TB disk and I want to know whether it can see all 3TB of the disk or if I will have problems. The computer is from the Core 2 era. Thanks in advance.

Edit. The disk is a WD3000F9YZ. Any negatives on that?

 

[Elixer]

Yeah, those can handle 3TB drives (so says the data sheet, but...)

Hard drive(s)
Up to 3 SATA drives (with the optional optical bay converter kit), or up to 3 of the small form factor SAS drives (with the HDD
bay converter kit); 3 TB
max; 80 GB
7
(7200 rpm) SATA 3.0 Gb/s; or 160, 250, 500, or 1000 GB
7
(7200 rpm) SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ; or 80 or 160 GB
7
(10K rpm) SATA 1.5-Gb/s
NCQ; or 300 GB
7
(10K rpm) SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ; or 73 or 146 GB
7
(10K rpm) 2.5" SAS; or 73, 146, 300, or 450 GB
7
(15K rpm) SAS

*edit 1
Hmm:
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/...=3718645&docId=emr_na-c02711513&lang=en&cc=us

DESCRIPTION

Third party 6Gb/sSATA hard disk drives are not supported on HP Workstations featuring only 1.5Gb/s (SATA Gen1) and 3Gb/s (SATA Gen2) SATA ports.
HP has worked with the hard disk drive vendors so that all 6Gbps SATA hard drives provided by HP will work on 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s ports.

Did you upgrade the firmware?

*edit 2, if all else fails, you could get a SATA card and be done with HP's lackluster support.

 

[ArisVer]

Thanks for digging that out for me. Even though it got me worried I went ahead and just purchased the disk as it is a good deal were I live, not many options here.
Your solution in case of incompatibility might be useful. In any case: I might be upgrading in a year or two; and I have another computer from that era I can try it on; and I also have a SATA card (which might be SATA2).

Firmware? If you mean the BIOS of the HP, it is not the latest.