4TB HDD on Windows 7 64bit?

[liv77]

Hello everyone,

I would like your advice please. I'm thinking about getting a 4TB HDD for storage (slave drive, no OS). Would Windows 7 64bit handle this without RAID? Or would I need to partition the drive?

Thank you for helping me, a novice in this area. I appreciate your time and effort.

 

[nullifier]

Here you go bud, this white paper should be able to answer some of your questions: http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/869E4925CC72E233862577E100235119/$file/Deskstar_3TB_FAQ_finalwebv2.pdf

It does appear that you can use a 4TB data drive in Windows 7 x64, it just has to be formatted in a certain manner. Other considerations have to be taken into account if it is ever used as a boot drive though.

Hope that helps!

 

[liv77]

Here you go bud, this white paper should be able to answer some of your questions: http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/869E4925CC72E233862577E100235119/$file/Deskstar_3TB_FAQ_finalwebv2.pdf

It does appear that you can use a 4TB data drive in Windows 7 x64, it just has to be formatted in a certain manner. Other considerations have to be taken into account if it is ever used as a boot drive though.

Hope that helps!

Thank you kindly! Yes, it appears there should be no problem with my OS.
Again, thank you for the data sheet!

 

[Hawkeye22]

When you partition the drive, partition it as GPT, not MBR.