Can I have more than 2.5TB of storage?

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samuri1983

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Hi everybody. I am looking to upgrade my storage. I currently have 2.5TB of storage made up of 1X5OOGB Seagate= C drive and 2X1TB Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm. I want to change my C drive to a 128GB SSD and add an additional 2X3TB WD Green 7200rpm. My system is a Dell Precision 690 Workstation 0MY171 mobo, Intel Xeon 5060 processor 3.20Ghz, 4GB RAM, Geforce 8800GTX GPU and 1Kw PSU. I am upgrading a lot on my system. I am adding a second Intel Xeon 5060 processor 3.2Ghz, an additional 16GB RAM and a new GPU Geforce GTX 660. I have the physical space for the extra hdd but would anybody know if my pc will take the extra storage. and what SSD's would be compatible. Thank you.
 
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I've defiitely had a 4tb drive plugged in.The motherbd will only go up to a 2.2tb drive but it worked fine in an external enclosure. You have 7 sata ports on that board and two are reserved for optical drives iirc. If you want to test but a drive from a local store that takes returns, if it doesnt work you are only out your time and not any $.
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Dell say my mobo supports up to four 3.5" SAS or SATA drives with additional space for one SATA Boot Drive. But that it will only support 2.5TB of storage. I dont want to spend 200 to 300 Euros on hard drives that won't work for me.
 
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Im not familiar with Dell.....much of that stuff in the server level class stuff is proprietary. I w as once asked to add storage to a Dell workstation ..... came over w/ additional drives and couldn't use them....the dell had a proprietary power connector. The exact same drives from dell were more than twice what I paid....so I modded the wires, taking connector from old PSU.
 
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I've defiitely had a 4tb drive plugged in.The motherbd will only go up to a 2.2tb drive but it worked fine in an external enclosure. You have 7 sata ports on that board and two are reserved for optical drives iirc. If you want to test but a drive from a local store that takes returns, if it doesnt work you are only out your time and not any $.
 
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