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#1 Naki

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 01:55 PM

I got an old mobo with NVidia NForce 4 SLI chipset, AMD Socket 939.
Will a 1.5 TB, SATA2 HDD work? What about 1 TB?

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 02:36 PM

As long as it is not IDE you should be fine

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 05:06 PM

Most of the time you can see it in the release notes of a BIOS update, I would look there first, 2TB should be the limit.

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Posted 21 November 2008 - 10:28 AM

Nois3, on Nov 20 2008, 10:36 PM, said:

As long as it is not IDE you should be fine

Yes, I mean SATA2 HDD.

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 09:31 PM

You should be fine

You wouldn't want IDE for a 1TB disk anyways

Sata all the way.

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 11:11 PM

DO NOT GET THE 1.5TB!!
just yet at least, there have been many issues with it, there are rumors of new firmware that fixed the issue but i would not trust it just yet.
go ahead and get a 1TB for now. i have 3 of the samsung F1s running in my server and they are great so far.

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Posted 25 November 2008 - 08:44 AM

What issues? Can you provide a link?
1 TB won't do. I wanna replace two 500 GB drives + one 300 GB with one 1.5 TB. 1.0 TB won't do that...

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Posted 25 November 2008 - 10:12 AM

well first of all take a look at the reviews at newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductRevie...N82E16822148337

http://www.guru3d.com/news/freeze-issues-w...barracuda-hdd-/
http://techreport.co...ussions.x/15863
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-b...ezing,6558.html

also the error protection is 10x worse than all other drives..

you can go ahead and get it if you want, i am just making sure that you are aware of the issue right now.

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Posted 26 November 2008 - 09:32 AM

AFAIK, no IDE drives were ever made in 1TB size, to say nothing of 1.5TB. The largest IDE drive was a 750gb from Seagate (and Seagate is no longer manufacturing IDE drives, so the 750gb IDE is discontinued).

BTW, I saw someone mention on the 'net that NTFS had a file size limit of 2.5TB. I couldn't find any other info to confirm this, so I assume it's incorrect (perhaps it's an OS size limitation? but no OS was mentioned in the post)

This post has been edited by the xt guy: 26 November 2008 - 09:35 AM