What is the story regarding 3TB HDDs and above

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I see a lot of discussion about these bigger drives. I bought and returned a Seagate 3TB HDD which my system could not see as a 3TB HDD.

I connected the drive to my system via a USB caddy (EZ dock2) which claims to support large drives.

My OS, Fedora 16 x86_64, could not see the drive, reported 860GB or so. The system (ASUS N53SN-RH71) BIOS itself could not seem to see the true (advertised) size, reporting the same value (860GB or so).

I have tried to contact ASUS and Seagate and the vendor (microcenter.com) were unable to help.

Do any of you fine people have any thoughts/clues/hints/tips/suggestions?

Regards,

George...
 
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Hawkeye22
If your motherboard didn't detect it, you may need a bios update. Once your bios detects it, your OS's should also be able to detect them. You need to create a GPT partition for windows to recognize drives over 2TB.

Depending on when you purchased you caddy, large drive support can be anything from 1TB or over. Remember 3TB drives and larger haven't been around that long.
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If your motherboard didn't detect it, you may need a bios update. Once your bios detects it, your OS's should also be able to detect them. You need to create a GPT partition for windows to recognize drives over 2TB.

Depending on when you purchased you caddy, large drive support can be anything from 1TB or over. Remember 3TB drives and larger haven't been around that long.
 
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