2TB drive - GIGABYTE GA-945GZM-S2 Motherboard

[Scott]

Just a quick question, i am looking for a new drive and saw a pretty good deal on a 2tb drive.  but i am wondering if i can use that size drive in my array. i built my unraid server about 2.5 yrs ago.   does anyone now if there is a way to check that my rig will be compatable with that size drive before buying it.

[PhilH]

It depends on what chipset your motherboard uses, what controllers on MB & any addon controller cards you have installed. We need more info to be able to answer your question.

 

As you can see below I have 3 2TB drives on a old PIII machine. Just took the right PCI SATA controller card. 

[Scott]

here is the mb i used

GIGABYTE GA-945GZM-S2 LGA 775 Intel 945GZ Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

 

chipsets

North Bridge Intel 945GZ

South Bridge Intel ICH7

[BRiT]

Those north and south bridges support 2TB drives perfectly fine. The caveat is you might need an updated bios or you might not need anything, it depends if any cases were cut initially by the manufacturer in the BIOS.