Buying Hard Drive

Hi, I was hoping to buy a new hard drive and wanted to see whether it would work on my motherboard. My motherboard is an ASUS P6T Deluxe Version 2 which has a 1Tb Hard Drive on it along with another 2Tb Hard Drive (same as the one I want to buy but the 2Tb version). I was looking to buy a Hitachi Deskstar 3TB 7K3000 to add on to the motherboard.
Also to add, I do have an extra SATA slot + SATA cable as well as a Power Cable.[/code]
http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T_Deluxe_V2/
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3tb-hitachi-0f12450-deskstar-7k3000-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-cache-8ms-ncq?utm_source=google+shopping&utm_medium=google+shopping
Answer #1
That should not be a problem.
Answer #2
What version of Windows are you running, just asking as eg. 32 bit XP will only be able to use a max HDD of 2TB.
Answer #3
gilly replied: XP will only be able to use a max HDD of 2TB.
True,There’s a good workaround however:
http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/gpt-loader/
This comes with the Pro/Server editions of Hard Disk Manager.
Edit: You probably didn’t notice but it’s a pre-order item,Or in other words,Out of stock,Overclockers have it tho:
http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-075-HI
Answer #4
Roberto400 replied: gilly replied: XP will only be able to use a max HDD of 2TB.
True,There's a good workaround however:
http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/gpt-loader/
This comes with the Pro/Server editions of Hard Disk Manager.
Edit: You probably didn't notice but it's a pre-order item,Or in other words,Out of stock,Overclockers have it tho:
http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-075-HI
AFAIK – You cannot use that on an OS Drive, there is also no RAID support, and no provision for using it on externals – you can only use it on internal storage drives.
Answer #5
If your referring to the paragon app your probably right,But the OP never mentioned it’s gonna be used as an OS drive anyhow.
Answer #6
Roberto400 replied: If your referring to the paragon app your probably right,But the OP never mentioned it's gonna be used as an OS drive anyhow.
He’s prolly not even using XP, that’s why I didn’t really go into much detail originally incase it confused the issue.
This will also work and is freeware, however I wouldn’t recommend it incase there are software conflicts and data loss
http://www.ext2fsd.com
Answer #7
I would recomad you get a USB 64b buffer hdd
Now 2.most MBs have ata slots so get an ata hdd
3.You can build a RAID -whit SATA- configuration whit new hdd has to be the same as old
4.you can get a rack & make old hdd usb hdd & get a sdd as internal to speed up things!
Answer #8
Hey, Thanks for the replies guys and sorry for the late reply.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit version.
This hard drive will be an extra hard drive on the system for video files (no operating systems).
To Pierre: I am not looking to build a RAID as I used to have one and didn’t enjoy it, I like how I know my video files are going to remain secure.
Thanks for the replies, I think I will buy it from overclockers as I did notice after I posted that it was a Pre-order.