rh535 Posted December 29, 2015 Posted December 29, 2015 Im looking at upgrading one of my hard drives to a Western Digitial 6TB Black. This will not be my mine hard drive. Just music, movies etc... I'm currently using a Asus P5W DH-Deluxe mobo. I believe I have a limit of 2TB per drive that can be used. My questions is: Can i still use this new drive up to 2TB with my current setup (until i upgrade my pc in 8 months or so?) If I put this new drive in a new pc will then show 6TB(5.5TB) without formatting? Old Motherboard: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131025&cm_re=asus_p5w_dh_deluxe-_-13-131-025-_-Product WD Black 6TBhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236970&ignorebbr=1 Thanks for the help! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 There might be bios update that would let the hd work, if not use a newer mb and partition the hd into 3 2tb partitions and see what happens. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 The 2 TB limit probably only applies to booting from it. I'd bet it shows up full size in Windows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigball1 Posted February 9, 2016 Posted February 9, 2016 The 2 TB limit probably only applies to booting from it. I'd bet it shows up full size in Windows. What he said Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted February 9, 2016 Posted February 9, 2016 (edited) Aren't 3TB and 6TB drives pretty unreliable? Though to your motherboard because I used to have one of those lol Edited February 9, 2016 by IVIYTH0S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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