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<blockquote data-quote="Scubadude" data-source="post: 885747" data-attributes="member: 17459"><p>Thanks for posting on my behalf RJ. Did some reading ... Please check my logic.</p><p></p><p>It looks like the published specs show 2TB max. This is because the standard BIOS does not support UEFIS. So it cannot boot from a disk larger than the maximum MBR allows, which is 2TB. Two workarounds are BIOS update and booting from a thumb drive. This allows drives formatted as GTP (rather than MBR) to be used making maximum currently available drive size the practical limitation. Ultimately power from the onboard PSU and heat may be constraints. From forums at the time 3TB and later 4TB and 6TB seems to work just fine. Largest I saw mentioned was 4x6TB in the caddies and 4TB in the optical bay (or was that in the N54?). Also read 6x4TB (2 in optical bay).</p><p></p><p>Side note ... RAID does not seem to work on drives larger than 2TB.</p><p></p><p>So any 6 or 10TB SATA drive should work fine? Or am I limited to the drives listed here http://n40l.wikia.com/wiki/Hard_drives ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scubadude, post: 885747, member: 17459"] Thanks for posting on my behalf RJ. Did some reading ... Please check my logic. It looks like the published specs show 2TB max. This is because the standard BIOS does not support UEFIS. So it cannot boot from a disk larger than the maximum MBR allows, which is 2TB. Two workarounds are BIOS update and booting from a thumb drive. This allows drives formatted as GTP (rather than MBR) to be used making maximum currently available drive size the practical limitation. Ultimately power from the onboard PSU and heat may be constraints. From forums at the time 3TB and later 4TB and 6TB seems to work just fine. Largest I saw mentioned was 4x6TB in the caddies and 4TB in the optical bay (or was that in the N54?). Also read 6x4TB (2 in optical bay). Side note ... RAID does not seem to work on drives larger than 2TB. So any 6 or 10TB SATA drive should work fine? Or am I limited to the drives listed here http://n40l.wikia.com/wiki/Hard_drives ? [/QUOTE]
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