1.5 TB disk on NForce 4 mobo?

[Naki]

I got an old mobo with NVidia NForce 4 SLI chipset, AMD Socket 939.

Will a 1.5 TB, SATA2 HDD work? What about 1 TB?

Edited November 21, 2008 by Naki

[Noise]

As long as it is not IDE you should be fine

[puntoMX]

Most of the time you can see it in the release notes of a BIOS update, I would look there first, 2TB should be the limit.

[Naki]

As long as it is not IDE you should be fine

Yes, I mean SATA2 HDD.

[Nerwin]

You should be fine You wouldn't want IDE for a 1TB disk anyways Sata all the way.

[ripken204]

DO NOT GET THE 1.5TB!!

just yet at least, there have been many issues with it, there are rumors of new firmware that fixed the issue but i would not trust it just yet.

go ahead and get a 1TB for now. i have 3 of the samsung F1s running in my server and they are great so far.

[Naki]

What issues? Can you provide a link?

1 TB won't do. I wanna replace two 500 GB drives + one 300 GB with one 1.5 TB. 1.0 TB won't do that...

[ripken204]

well first of all take a look at the reviews at newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductRevie...N82E16822148337

http://www.guru3d.com/news/freeze-issues-w...barracuda-hdd-/

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-b...ezing,6558.html

also the error protection is 10x worse than all other drives..

you can go ahead and get it if you want, i am just making sure that you are aware of the issue right now.

Edited November 25, 2008 by ripken204

[the xt guy]

AFAIK, no IDE drives were ever made in 1TB size, to say nothing of 1.5TB. The largest IDE drive was a 750gb from Seagate (and Seagate is no longer manufacturing IDE drives, so the 750gb IDE is discontinued).

BTW, I saw someone mention on the 'net that NTFS had a file size limit of 2.5TB. I couldn't find any other info to confirm this, so I assume it's incorrect (perhaps it's an OS size limitation? but no OS was mentioned in the post)

Edited November 26, 2008 by the xt guy

[eyeball]

Wow 1.5TB Seagates seem really bad looking at those links.

[Naki]

I found this:

http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

and also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Limitations

Edited November 26, 2008 by Naki

[puntoMX]

Seagate got a new firmware for their 1.5GB drives, just go to their support pages .

[macmanpapi]

got one about a week ago have not had and issues yet and got abot 400 gigs on it know