Drive greater than 2TB

[hobbie1009]

I have an older MB Foxconn A7GM-S AM2.  I don't think it would support a drive size greater than 2TB, but how do you find out for sure.  I found the manual but it doesn't list drive size limits, most likely because it wasn't an issue at the time.

 

Thanks in advance.

[testdasi]

Unfortunately unless someone already tried i.e. you can google it, it would be virtually impossible to know for sure without plugging in a greater than 2TB disk.

[garycase]

Can't seem to find a definitive reference on this, so I would agree the easiest way to confirm whether or not it supports drives beyond the 2TB limit is to simply plug one in and see if it's "seen" properly.

 

Just buy a 3TB (or larger) drive and give it a try -- worst case is a small restocking fee to return the drive if you don't have some other use for it.  ... or you can simply use it as a 2TB drive 

 

[hobbie1009]

Thank you.  I got better results broadening my search from just my motherboard, to motherboards in general.  The consensus seems to be trying to run the large drive as the primary windows drive then there was issues w/ the MBR being able to partition it properly.  Having SATA and a 64 bit processor (AMD LE-1100) are pretty good indicators that the larger drives are ok.  I ordered a 4TB HGST to come in tomorrow.  I'll load that as the new partition drive and see what happens.  I'll follow up with my results.  Thank you again.

[hobbie1009]

The Parity is finished building and checking and so far so good.  Thanks again.