johnnyb105
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we need some info its not just your board but what operating system you will use win 7 and win 8 should support 3 tb But if it was me I would buy a 128 gig SSD DRIVE USE IT AS BOOT and use the 3 tb as storage and other files you be happy happy happy.
If your motherboard has UEFI compatible firmware then it will support the GPT partitioning scheme which means that you can boot from 3TB hard drives without losing some of the space on the disk. If your motherboard has BIOS compatible firmware then it does not support the GPT partitioning scheme, which means that the bootable disk must be MBR formatted which limits the capacity to 2.2TB
johnnyb105
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Partitioning is fine, but under the MBR scheme a total of 2^32 * 512 bytes can be addressed. This comes out to approximately 2.2TB which can be partitioned into up to 4 active partitions, or 3 active partitions and any number of logical partitions.
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If the op board isn't to old it should be fine but the larger the drives are the slower they seem to get as well that's why I suggested a SSD drive as boot the other as storage its the way I run my systems I hate loath working on a person pc without one lol got spoiled,
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