Motherboard Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H (rev. 2.1) can support 3TB HDD or not ?

[greyhat62]

I am using mainboard Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H (rev. 2.1), bios ver FF
I checked at gigabyte homepate but it doesn't says that this mainboardh support for 3TB HDD or not. Just software installed on windows
gigabyte.us/fileupload/microsite/276/3tb.html

I intend to buy one 3TB hard drive for data storage only,  not install windows.
I want to ask who have used this mainboard or check 3TB drive with this motherboard then can give me the exact answer if this mainboard support 3TB HDD or not.
Thank you in advance.

[autotech]

Actually it depends on the external hard drive you use a majority of them will work with your board i have the same one but the ud5 not the 3 and i have no problems i bought the following drive.

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Details.aspx?type=Hardware&p=Seagate%20Expansion%203TB%20External%20Hard%20Drive&v=Seagate&uid=&l=en-US&c=Storage%20Devices&sc=Hard%20Drives%2C%20External

Now if you are using windows xp i dont know for sure might have to download a patch to get it to work but on windows 7 you should be fine.

[greyhat62]

Actually it depends on the external hard drive you use a majority of them will work with your board i have the same one but the ud5 not the 3 and i have no problems i bought the following drive.

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Details.aspx?type=Hardware&p=Seagate%20Expansion%203TB%20External%20Hard%20Drive&v=Seagate&uid=&l=en-US&c=Storage%20Devices&sc=Hard%20Drives%2C%20External

Now if you are using windows xp i dont know for sure might have to download a patch to get it to work but on windows 7 you should be fine.

Hmm, thank you but I mean internal HDD, not external HDD

[autotech]

Ok then thats easier to answer if you are using windows 7  32bit not right away 2t is the limit but there are workarounds if it is a 64 bit version of windows 7 then yes right off the bat. Here is the link for the workaround from gigabyte for 32 bit systems.

http://techreport.com/news/20681/gigabyte-tool-helps-32-bit-oses-with-3tb-drives

here is the list that supports that work around and your motherboard is on it but remember if you are using windows 7 64 bit you wont need the work around.

http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2011/03/gigabyte-announces-3tb-unlock-utility.html

also a link on last link to the download for it on gigabytes website and the work around also work with xp 32 bit versions. Since you are just using it for storage the work around should work great for you it just puts 2088 gig into 1 partition and the rest into another both easy to get to as you are just using it for storage. Will be up for a bit longer if you have any more questions.

[greyhat62]

Thank you for your help.
I use windows 7  64bit
Is it ok if I let the driver 3TB with one partition 3TB ?

[autotech]

Yes it is ok it will all show up as one partition but size shown will be a little bit less than 3T due to the way they figure things...lol

[greyhat62]

Noted & thank you much for your help