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December 17th, 2017 13:00
HDD in excess of 2TB
Can a Seagate 8TB Sata HDD be installed into the Dell XPS 8920 (or 8930) as the secondary drive (or even a third drive), with a 512GB SDD as the boot drive? I keep hearing from Dell chat reps that there's a 2TB limit, although I currently have a 5TB HDD installed as a third HDD in an HP Envy with a 256 SDD boot drive and a secondary 2TB HDD. Thanks.
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Koeven
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December 18th, 2017 21:00
I have a 3TB Seagate Sata HDD in my XPS 8930, along with a 2TB HDD and a 1GB NVME as the boot drive. I'm not sure what would limit the HDD size?
ieee488
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December 19th, 2017 06:00
Never heard of Google, huh?????
https://www.startech.com/faq/mbr-vs-gpt
cmatiuk
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December 19th, 2017 05:00
I was told by two Dell reps (in two different chat sessions) that 2TB was the size limit for expansion drives on that PC. I was kind of suspicious of their responses since I have a 5TB on my current HP. I just needed to hear from actual owners how they were configuring their machines. Thanks!