Would my mainboard support a 4TB hard disc drive?

[dennilfloss]

Mobo is a few years old so I want to be sure before I buy one of those HGST 4TB drives to replace a 500GB drive. It would be hard drive #2 with my current 1TB hard drive #1 remaining #1 (with OS and programs).

This makes me think I should be OK but you guys are the experts.

http://www.hgst.com/internal-drives/above-2tb/

http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/869E4925CC72E233862577E100235119/$file/Deskstar_3TB_FAQ_finalwebv2.pdf

 

[dac7nco]

Yes, as long as it's GPT formatted. You won't be able to boot from it, but it doesn't seem to be an issue.

Daimon

 

[tweakboy]

3930k with 4GB of RAM is bottleneck no ? If you have the money to buy a 3930k then you should have money to buy a 8GB kit or 16GB kit. Maybe you don't do intensive stuff on it. Do you DAW or Video Editing or StudioMax or Autocad.. if soo 4GB is bottleneck. normal PC stuff is ok but still 8GB feels snappier. But with Ivy tech get 16GB for 70 bucks...

 

[dennilfloss]

tweakboy, I interpret his sig as saying his ASUS nVidia 670 videocard had 4GB of VRAM.

 

[bankster55]

What the hell does his vidcard have to do with your 4TB HDD question?
You asked a question and dac7nco gave you 100% correct answer
Your boot drive is not >2.19TB so you dont need UEFI bios for 4TB data drive, just format it GPT (convert GPT in diskpart) and Win 7 from other drive will see it all just fine - as your own link shows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463524.aspx

 

[dac7nco]

3930k with 4GB of RAM is bottleneck no ? If you have the money to buy a 3930k then you should have money to buy a 8GB kit or 16GB kit. Maybe you don't do intensive stuff on it. Do you DAW or Video Editing or StudioMax or Autocad.. if soo 4GB is bottleneck. normal PC stuff is ok but still 8GB feels snappier. But with Ivy tech get 16GB for 70 bucks...

No, TweakBoy, the 3930K has 32GB RAM in four sticks. It is indeed snappier than 4GB would be.

Daimon

 

[tweakboy]

No, TweakBoy, the 3930K has 32GB RAM in four sticks. It is indeed snappier than 4GB would be.

Daimon

WOW 32GB ok ya the picture didnt seem right.. WOW nice rig man. enjoy it.

Can I ask what you do as your profession on the comp ?

I do DAW ...... one day 64GB of ram, if you do video editing or studiomax or autocad that RAM will come in handy,,, Youll probably never use over 16GB but it still looks sexy,, 32GB<, wait it go

 

[dac7nco]

WOW 32GB ok ya the picture didnt seem right.. WOW nice rig man. enjoy it.

Can I ask what you do as your profession on the comp ?

I do DAW ...... one day 64GB of ram, if you do video editing or studiomax or autocad that RAM will come in handy,,, Youll probably never use over 16GB but it still looks sexy,, 32GB<, wait it go

I do a lot of audio (lectures with noisy audiences) & photo editing, coding, video transcoding and playing around in VMWare. I game a bit. This isn't a work machine, but I've wanted a (home) machine I couldn't bog-down for a long time, so I built one. I once spent around four-grand for a Pentium-60, so I like the years we live in.

Always,
Daimon

P.S.: Your music sounds good.