Max Hard Drive Size for ASUS M2NPV-VM (NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430)

[reicherb]

I need to put more storage in my HTPC and can't figure out what the max drive size is for the ASUS M2NPV-VM. Does anyone knows? I'll be using the RAID controller on the board if that makes a difference.

Thanks.

 

[Cerb]

Probably 2TB for drives. It wouldn't surprise me if 2TB total, given its age, or if >2TB total would "work" but cause issues. I would not attempt >2TB with hardware that old, except in a pure software RAID. The worst possible scenario, which I have personally seen happen, is that it may appear to work fine, until the OS tries to address over 2TB, and then everything becomes FUBAR, because that rolled over and overwrote data starting at byte 0.

Up to 2TB should be safe, having been an MBR and SCSI limit for ages, now.

 

[reicherb]

Thanks.

 

[zir_blazer]

Depends on both Firmware (BIOS or UEFI), Disk Partitioning Format (MBR or GPT), and OS (Linux or Windows). The old BIOS limitation was that you could only use a MBR-formatted HD as a boot drive, which was limited to 2 TB. You can, however, use a secondary data disk with no issues assuming that you're using another HD to boot and got appropiated Drivers (For example, Seagate provides tools for that to even do it on WXP). On some Linux distributions, it IS possible to use a booteable BIOS-GPT combination if you use Syslinux as Boot Loader.
On your case, I don't know how using RAID would increase compatibility or complexity.