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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: Rav3n on November 04, 2011, 08:48:54 am

Title: GA-MA790XT-UD4P - EFI - 3TB
Post by: Rav3n on November 04, 2011, 08:48:54 am

Hi,

I cannot seem to find anywhere that notes if this MB can support 3TB hard drives.  I have this MB and I'm very interested in getting a 3TB drive but hate to buy and find out it won't work.  Can anyone confirm and if so where you got the confirmation?

If so, what do I need to ensure it works?  Thank you.

Title: Re: GA-MA790XT-UD4P - EFI - 3TB
Post by: teknology9 on November 05, 2011, 11:34:22 am

Hi,

I don't think your MB supports hard drives of this size as there is no information to be found on the page concerning your motherboard unlike more recent MB's. See here:

http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3010#ov

You could also contact Gigabyte Technical Support and ask the same question of which can be found here:

 http://uk.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx

I hope this helps

Teknology9

Title: Re: GA-MA790XT-UD4P - EFI - 3TB
Post by: Rav3n on November 08, 2011, 09:30:31 am

Thank you kindly

Title: Re: GA-MA790XT-UD4P - EFI - 3TB
Post by: teknology9 on November 08, 2011, 09:59:43 am

No problem Rav3n, I hope you find a solution.


Teknology9

Title: Re: GA-MA790XT-UD4P - EFI - 3TB
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 08, 2011, 10:13:19 am

Besides it shouldn't be a problem any more..........with the prices of all hard drives going through the roof you will be lucky to be able to afford a 250GB one!!  :o

Title: Re: GA-MA790XT-UD4P - EFI - 3TB
Post by: rick-dallas on January 31, 2012, 12:59:11 am

Hopefully by now, you have an answer to your question but just in case you don't, I have the same system board as you and I recently installed the Hitachi Deskstar 3.5 Inch 3 TB CoolSpin SATA 6Gb/s Internal Hard Drive Retail Kit 0S03228 from Amazon and it works great.  I was fortunate enough to get it before HD prices started going back up.  I believe I got it from Amazon for $120 which was pretty amazing considering Frys locally had it for $159.

Anyway, put it in, formatted it (which ran all night) and it came right up and have been using ever since.  I am running Win 7x64 so don't believe you'll have any issues.

Good luck!

Rick