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Resolved Large hard drive support

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by bg9208, 2009/08/11.

  1. 2009/08/11
    bg9208

    bg9208 Inactive Thread Starter

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    My system has a MSI KT6V motherboard with 2 IDE hard drives I have SATA RAID controlled by VT8237.
    I would like to install a SATA 500GB hard drive. Will my motherboard support such a large drive and am I likely to have any compatability problems?
    I have googled for KT6V large drive support with no luck.
    TIA
     
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  2. 2009/08/11
    Arie

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    I don't think you'll have any problem with sucha small ;) drive on a SATA controller.
     
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    bg9208

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    Thanks for your guidance Arie, maybe I was being a bit too cautious!
     
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  5. 2009/08/12
    Arie

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    AFAIK the size of hard drive would give problems in older systems with IDE (or EIDE) drives, but not for systems with a SATA drive, since SATA was 'only' officially formed in 2004.
     
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    Arie

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    I've marked this thread as 'Resolved'.

     
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  7. 2009/08/13
    LUKE KUP

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    500 GB will hold alot of date but it depands on your chose as put it as a primary master or slaving it.. I suggust that you create a back up patition on that hard drive and alocating it with more memory space(eg: 400GB). Check and see if your mother board has a SATA drive port... It there is one then you will have no problem ... Just adjust you bios setting during bootup...
     
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  8. 2009/08/14
    bg9208

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    Thanks again for the information. WBBS has come up trumps yet again!
     
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  9. 2009/08/14
    Arie

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    SATA doesn't have Primary / Slave configurations. Every SATA drive is on a single connector.


    As bg9208 stated:
    A quick search on his MB model shows:

     
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