Adding Multiple TB HDD's

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of course you can. I have 6 drives, four are 2tb or larger, in my server and its a few years old runs a standard pc desktop board (amd 970 chipset, athlon2 x2 cpu) all running on the chipset sata ports.

Check your manufacturers support page to see if your supports drives larger that 2tb. You might want to read notes on the available bios updates for your board too and see if its mentioned there. Most boards support the larger drives but in order to boot from a drive that is larger than 2.2tb your motherbd has to have an efi or uefi bios plus the hdd has to be in GPT format.
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of course you can. I have 6 drives, four are 2tb or larger, in my server and its a few years old runs a standard pc desktop board (amd 970 chipset, athlon2 x2 cpu) all running on the chipset sata ports.

Check your manufacturers support page to see if your supports drives larger that 2tb. You might want to read notes on the available bios updates for your board too and see if its mentioned there. Most boards support the larger drives but in order to boot from a drive that is larger than 2.2tb your motherbd has to have an efi or uefi bios plus the hdd has to be in GPT format.
 
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As above you can add as many 3tb hard drives to your system as you have ports to support them. Booting off of a 3tb drive however requires specific hardware and software support though. I have for instance 6 3tb drives in my system and a add on PCI-E dual SATA card to handle my two SSD drive I use to boot Windows 8 and OS X. Between my Blu-Ray rips Steam Origin and music it all seems to add up fast.
 
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