- Nov 21, 2010
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Hi,
I know it's not possible to use a hard drive larger than 2TB as a boot drive under old BIOS systems, but what about using as a non-bootable only for storage? I'm thinking of putting a 3TB Hitachi in my rig to use for backups. And maybe another one as a backup of a backup. After accidentally deleting and then restoring a great deal of files (~20% of which didn't make it) I'm finally accepting the idea that data is worthless without a backup.
I know it's not possible to use a hard drive larger than 2TB as a boot drive under old BIOS systems, but what about using as a non-bootable only for storage? I'm thinking of putting a 3TB Hitachi in my rig to use for backups. And maybe another one as a backup of a backup. After accidentally deleting and then restoring a great deal of files (~20% of which didn't make it) I'm finally accepting the idea that data is worthless without a backup.