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Hey guys,
I have a Optiplex 740 and would like to install a larger hard drive to store ripped BD movies. the Dell spec sheet says the maximum hard drive size is 250 Gb as seen in the link below:

(http://www.dell.com/downloads/jp/products/optix/optiplex_740_techspecs_070326.pdf)

Is this for real? is 250 Gb really the most I can add to this, or will i need to get an external hard drive?

Also would like to replace the dvd drive with a blu ray drive to rip the movies with. Is possible with this computer?

Thanks in advanced.
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Dereck47
You misunderstood the specs. 250GB is the largest drive that Dell offers as an option.
You can buy any size drive you want up to 2TB. A motherboard has to have a UEFI BIOS (which yours doesn’t have) in order to use a drive larger than 2TB as a boot drive.

Yes, you can add a Blu-ray drive to your system. You just need an available SATA port on your motherboard to plug it into.
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You misunderstood the specs. 250GB is the largest drive that Dell offers as an option.
You can buy any size drive you want up to 2TB. A motherboard has to have a UEFI BIOS (which yours doesn’t have) in order to use a drive larger than 2TB as a boot drive.

Yes, you can add a Blu-ray drive to your system. You just need an available SATA port on your motherboard to plug it into.
 
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If you want to use the 4TB drive as a boot drive then 1st you would have to initialize it using the GPT partitioning scheme.
After doing that you could then create 2 2TB partitions. You should then be able to install Windows to one of the partitions. I’ve never heard of anyone doing that so I can’t tell you if it would definitely work.

If you don’t want to install Windows to the drive and just want to use it as a data/storage/backup drive then you don’t need a UEFI BIOS; you just have to initialize it as GPT. You will then be able to use the entire 4TB.

Here’s additional info on the subject: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408
 
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