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February 11th, 2022 16:00
T3600 Workstation does it support secondary 14TB Sata drive?
Hello community,
I have a Dell T3600 workstation that I brought brand new few years back. I now need to expand my hard drive space. I want to install 14TB Sata hard drive as secondary drive. I can't seem to find if my machine would support a large hard drive as secondary. Before I go ahead and purchase the drive, anyone know if this is possible?
thanks community
Best Regards,
NP
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Chino de Oro
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February 13th, 2022 12:00
Hello Nick,
1. Yes, adding the new drive as GPT, else you won't get 14TB
2. Convert your C:\ drive to GPT is not required to add large storage drive but I suggest to convert your C:\ drive so you can use UEFI boot mode. Win 10 has built-in tool to convert MBR2GPT. There are different ways, you can run from inside and outside Windows as well. Just run command to validate full OS and convert.
Recess456
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February 16th, 2022 10:00
Will try it out. Thanks again
Chino de Oro
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February 11th, 2022 17:00
Yes Nick, 14 TB SATA drive will work with your T3600 as storage. Just be sure to initialize it with GPT partitioning scheme in Device Manager.
Recess456
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February 13th, 2022 10:00
Thanks Chino for replying back. I appreciate it.
So my windows primary C:\ drive with the Windows 10 OS is an SSD set are MBR. Question:
1:) Do I put in the secondary 14TB and set that secondary drive as GPT?
2:) Or is it my Primary C:\ drive I have to turn it into GPT.
Best Regards,
Nick