Upgrade 2TB HDD to 4TB HDD

[damathon111]

Hi, I currently have the Seagate Barracuda 7200 2000GB, SATA 6Gb/s and I would like to have more storage in my computer.

I read up on 3TB hard drive and apparently they tend to breakdown a lot, so I'm looking at a 4TB HDD. Can anyone recommend a 4TB hard drive for my computer?

Here are my computer's specs:

8GB-Kit G-Skill RipJaws PC3-12800U CL9
ASRock H97M Pro4, Sockel 1150, mATX
Corsair Carbide Series 200R, ATX, ohne Netzteil
EVGA 600B,Bronze,3Yrs Wnt
Intel Core i5-4590, 4x 3.30GHz, boxed
Seagate Barracuda 7200 2000GB, SATA 6Gb/s
XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation Edition mit MANTLE und Gaming Evolved Client, 3GB GDDR5, 2x DVI, HDMI,2x Mini DisplayPort

 

[woodson75]

WD Red drives are always a solid bet. Designed for NAS/RAID configurations, however, commonly used as a secondary storage in desktops due to their wide variety of massive capacities.

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451445828&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+red+4tb

 

[damathon111]

WD Red drives are always a solid bet. Designed for NAS/RAID configurations, however, commonly used as a secondary storage in desktops due to their wide variety of massive capacities.

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451445828&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+red+4tb

What I'd like to know is, does my computer have enough power for a larger hard drive?

 

[woodson75]

According to your motherboard's specs, it incorporates UEFI BIOS which would allow you to boot from HDDs bigger than 2 TB without any issues.

 

[damathon111]

According to your motherboard's specs, it incorporates UEFI BIOS which would allow you to boot from HDDs bigger than 2 TB without any issues.

What about this one this 6 TB one: http://

 

[woodson75]

Yeah, shouldn't be a problem. Here's another TH thread with some advice on having the proper partition system (GPT as opposed to MBR)

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2243572/2nd-internal-hdd-showing-correct-size-showing-2tb-4tb.html