I have the RB-1200 server that I purchased from Lime Tech a few years ago. Will this have any issues supporting 4TB drives or larger? I was looking at this one from new egg:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-178-338&Tpk=N82E16822178338

 

 

The latest Intel drivers for the 945 chipset DO support drives > 2TB on Windows based systems; but I do NOT know if Linux incorporates drivers with this support.

 

Simplest way to confirm it is to simply buy one of the drives and try it 

 

Worst case is you can't use it on UnRAID ... but it would certainly be a good backup drive for 4TB worth of data !!

 

... by the way, I know the EARLIER servers Limetech built using the SuperMicro C2SEE DO support the larger drives, so there's probably a pretty good chance the RB-1200 will as well.

But all I can confirm is that the chipset used on the system CAN support them ... not that it DOES.

 

Thanks, I have successfully used 3 TB drives with no problem.

If you've used 3TB drives then there's no question about support for 4TB drives.    The barrier is at the 2TB point -- if it supports 3TB, it will support 4TB, 5TB, and beyond 

The 4TB disk arrived today and was accepted no problem. Thanks.

Like I said above, if it works for anything about 2TB, you're fine with ANY of the forthcoming drives.

The 5TB WD Reds coming out in 6 months will work fine as well.

[Of course you'd also have to upgrade your parity drive to use them  ]