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3 To disk and "old" MB

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3 To disk and "old" MB

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I use an Asus P5QL-CM motherboard.
Do you think I can use 3 or 4 disks 3To in raidz ?
Thanks for the anwser.

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I do not see any problems, why do you think in problems?, because is old?, if is because bios do not support 3TB, you need to try first or find a hack BIOS: http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-A ... 3TB-drives
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Re: 3 To disk and "old" MB

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Yes I am worried about the bios, but I read that for data disk, bios dont need to be ready for 3to disk.
It is important to have a 3to bios ready if you want to boot the 3to disk
For me I boot on CF so...

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Check out this forum http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id= ... uage=en-us

It seems rather hit or miss that it will work. No one is confirming.

https://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?bo ... uage=en-us

Someone has got it working apparently in that forum but thats for the P5QL-E I'm not sure how old these boards are but the main problem is windows 7 wont read a 3TB boot disk from it unless you use some unlocker tool. As for nas4free.... I have a dell optiplex 745 that had three 3TB disks in it with no problem.

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The BIOS hard drive size limitation is only on boot. Once you boot, the OS sees the drives just fine. So, install embedded to a USB flash, and you have no worries.

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