Formally seagate company already supplies its HDD with 3 tb volume, precisely western digital company can fix the deliveries of HDD with this volume for retail market.
For the work with HDD with volume 2.5 Tb or 3 tb will be required the 64-bit version Windows vista or Windows 7, the presence of GPT on the hard disk and EFI on the motherboard and also the support of 64-bit system LBA from the side of hard disks controller. Let us note that EFI/UEFI are actively used on Intel motherboard, and support to 64-bit version LBA ensure chipset AMD. The possibilities of 32-bit version LBA and MBR with traditional Bios are limited to the maximum volume 2.19 Tb.
Windows XP supports only MBR; therefore even EFI presence on the motherboard will not solve the problem of compatibility with large volume. Windows XP do not support GPT; therefore it will be impossible to load this operating system from new hard disks of this volume. True, if you intend to use a hard disk only for storing data, and not to load the operating system, then 64- bit version Windows XP is enough - with the presence of support from the side of disk controller.
Western digital company found a effective solution for this problem - in the complete set with the new HDD series caviar green with 2.5 Tb or 3 tb volume is supplied the controller SATA PCI express x1 on base of chip Marvell of 88SE9025. This controller guarantee the support of partition with volume 3 tb independently of motherboard .
WD also proposes a table to determine how HDD with more than 2 Tb are supported by different operating system. Related Products :
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