I upgraded the internal sata drive in my HP Z600 with a sata Gen3 4tb 6GB/s HDD. Since the motherboard in the Z600 only supports older sata gen 2 3GB/s I have had big problems. In fact, the disk is now not recognized on startup and I have essentially lost all the data.
I am really confused now about what HDD is safe to use? Is it the high capacity 4tb that is causing the problem, in which case I could maybe have more luck with a 2tb 6GB/s drive. Or should I avoid gen3 sata alltogether. They are supposed to be backwards compatable but that has not been my experience. HP have not been very helpful, they say it is best to stick with gen 2 HDDs but they are getting harder to get and 1tb drives are not high enough capacity for the work that I do. Any ideas?
I am really confused now about what HDD is safe to use? Is it the high capacity 4tb that is causing the problem, in which case I could maybe have more luck with a 2tb 6GB/s drive. Or should I avoid gen3 sata alltogether. They are supposed to be backwards compatable but that has not been my experience. HP have not been very helpful, they say it is best to stick with gen 2 HDDs but they are getting harder to get and 1tb drives are not high enough capacity for the work that I do. Any ideas?
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