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Can Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r v2.1 support 3TB hard drive?
I have an Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r motherboard running both Windows XP and
Windows 7. I'm about to buy a 3TB hard drive. Would this motherboard support it? If not, is there a new driver update to make this possible? |
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Can Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r v2.1 support 3TB hard drive?
Workbug wrote:
I have an Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r motherboard running both Windows XP and Windows 7. I'm about to buy a 3TB hard drive. Would this motherboard support it? If not, is there a new driver update to make this possible? I'd start by looking to the disk manufacturer, to provide some advice. One of the links here, will likely answer your questions. At a guess, I'd say it'll be easier to make it a "data" drive, than a "boot" drive. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/beyond-2tb/ There is a barrier of sorts, at 2.2TB, which is where the fun begins. If you buy a 2TB drive, then there is nothing to worry about. If you use a 3TB drive, or make large RAID arrays or the like, then you have further reading ahead of you. Paul |
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Can Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r v2.1 support 3TB hard drive?
On Jun 9, 6:21*pm, Paul wrote:
Workbug wrote: I have an Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r motherboard running both Windows XP and Windows 7. *I'm about to buy a 3TB hard drive. *Would this motherboard support it? *If not, is there a new driver update to make this possible? I'd start by looking to the disk manufacturer, to provide some advice. One of the links here, will likely answer your questions. At a guess, I'd say it'll be easier to make it a "data" drive, than a "boot" drive. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/beyond-2tb/ There is a barrier of sorts, at 2.2TB, which is where the fun begins. If you buy a 2TB drive, then there is nothing to worry about. If you use a 3TB drive, or make large RAID arrays or the like, then you have further reading ahead of you. * * Paul Western Digital says only systems with new BIOS can go over the 2TB barrier. That's why I'm looking for a BIOS update or some sort. |
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Can Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r v2.1 support 3TB hard drive?
Workbug wrote:
On Jun 9, 6:21 pm, Paul wrote: Workbug wrote: I have an Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r motherboard running both Windows XP and Windows 7. I'm about to buy a 3TB hard drive. Would this motherboard support it? If not, is there a new driver update to make this possible? I'd start by looking to the disk manufacturer, to provide some advice. One of the links here, will likely answer your questions. At a guess, I'd say it'll be easier to make it a "data" drive, than a "boot" drive. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/beyond-2tb/ There is a barrier of sorts, at 2.2TB, which is where the fun begins. If you buy a 2TB drive, then there is nothing to worry about. If you use a 3TB drive, or make large RAID arrays or the like, then you have further reading ahead of you. Paul Western Digital says only systems with new BIOS can go over the 2TB barrier. That's why I'm looking for a BIOS update or some sort. You can always set up a small drive as the boot drive, and save the 3TB one for a data-only drive. An SSD drive makes a good choice for the boot drive, at least in terms of performance. Or some people might use a Raptor for the boot drive. ******* In a few isolated cases, there have been motherboards with two kinds of BIOS available for them (EFI was an option). But for the rest, you'd be stuck with just the one kind (either the older kind, or the newer EFI/UEFI kind). The manufacturers generally only feel obligated to release one architecture (they consider the stream of BIOS releases they make, to be "bug fixes" - a new BIOS architecture isn't a bug fix as such). In only one case, I've seen a motherboard manufacturer actually remove a feature, in the second and all subsequent BIOS releases. The users were quite annoyed, but the reason the manufacturer did it, is they didn't have a license to release the feature in the first place :-) So their first release was an "accident". Other than that, they seem to live up to whatever they stated in the manual, as being a feature. Straying from what is printed in the user manual, as a feature set, wouldn't be normal for them. Paul |
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Can Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r v2.1 support 3TB hard drive?
Workbug wrote:
I have an Gigabyte ep35c-ds3r motherboard running both Windows XP and Windows 7. I'm about to buy a 3TB hard drive. Would this motherboard support it? If not, is there a new driver update to make this possible? Hi, like Paul said - there is no way to use it as boot drive (with more than 2.2 TB in one single partition). best choice for xp32 + win7: SSD boot drive, 3 TB data drive btw Your Bios Rev is F5B - Nov.17.2010 ? http://oldforum.gigabyte.de/forumdow...tabios2010.htm -- Oli |
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