[SOLVED] Does my mother board support 10TB Harddisk

[m0urya]

Hi,

My motherboard: Asus Z87 Deluxe (Runs on i7, 16GB RAM)

Hard disk i would like to buy: 10 TB Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive

Does my mother board support this hard disk? I couldnt find a reference anywhere.

 

[extreme_noob]

Yes, but if youre going to really use 10TB, I highly recommend you use it in a network attached device, rather than your personal device. Hence why this is called a NAS drive.

 

[kerberos_20]

Sata2 was limited to 10TB, i see no issues with your sata3 going above it
btw how many wires has your sata power cable? If it has 5wires, drive will not work

 

[fzabkar]

Sata2 was limited to 10TB ...

The interface speed has no bearing on the capacity. Or am I misunderstanding your meaning?

If a motherboard supports drives larger than 2TB, then it will support all current drives. The only issue with motherboards in the past 10 years has been whether the BIOS or RAID or chipset drivers had a 32-bit LBA limit.

 

[kerberos_20]

it was bios/hardware limitation 32bit lba or smt like that (they had to save money somewhere)
sata 3 goes with full 48bit lba, thats 128PetaByte limit, tho win 10 will limit you to 16TB with GPT and to 2TB with MBR

 

[fzabkar]

sata 3 goes with full 48bit lba ...

The interface speed has nothing to do with the capacity.

 

[popatim]

it was bios/hardware limitation 32bit lba or smt like that (they had to save money somewhere)
sata 3 goes with full 48bit lba,...

Nope, not all motherbds that had sata3 used 48bit LBA. Ask me how I know.

 

[m0urya]

thanks all. I will go ahead and buy the drive.

 

[popatim]

Anytime.

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