Old Laptop, big hard drive

[Brado78]

Hello, I have a 120gb ssd in my Lenovo T410 and I saw 2TB 2.5" drives on newegg. I was wondering would the laptop recognize a 2TB hard drive? I want to know this before i buy the 2nd caddy as well 🙂


Thanks Guys 😀

 

[tcsenter]

Latest BIOS adds support for Windows 8 and UEFI so I don't see why not.

 

[XavierMace]

Latest BIOS adds support for Windows 8 and UEFI so I don't see why not.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with his question.

 

[Cerb]

Hello, I have a 120gb ssd in my Lenovo T410 and I saw 2TB 2.5" drives on newegg. I was wondering would the laptop recognize a 2TB hard drive? I want to know this before i buy the 2nd caddy as well 🙂


Thanks Guys 😀

Anything since the very late 90s should recognize well beyond 2TB. 2TB is the maximum for MBR, not the physical drive addressing. You should be good to go, if it will fit. Do make sure the physical height is acceptable for the T410.

 

[tcsenter]

Which has absolutely nothing to do with his question.

i.e. the firmware/BIOS is contemporary or recent enough, it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Brado78]

Cerb- Yeah i checked all the measurements it will fit 🙂, It is about time they came up with a 2TB 2.5" hard drive. 🙂

 

[Compman55]

Any BIOS with 48bit LBA will support drives that large. And no, I had a 2005 Gateway 7405GX laptop based on a KT800, with an Athlon64 cpu, and it would not run my 160GB hard drive without it splitting multiple partitions. It was an ATA133 instead on SATA however. Once manufactures added SATA controllers, I assume the bios already had 48bit LBA support added.