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Will my system support 1 Tera-byte hard-disk?

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zegulas
zegulas Original post #1
Jul 30, 2010 at 1:31 AM
Hello people,
I have AMD Athlon 3000+, MSI's K8M800 Motherboard, and 512 MB DDR1 RAM. The local vendor said that, my system wont support a terabyte of hard disk, instead he asked me to go for a 500 GB disk. But I don't think its value for money. Is there any way to find out if my system would support 1TB HDD..??
funkysourav
funkysourav #2
Jul 30, 2010 at 9:40 AM
check your motherboard manual and see if it has support for sataII
if it does then you're good to go 1tb(as all 1tb drives available are sata II)
Piyush
Piyush #3
Jul 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM
it supports sata 2
funkysourav
funkysourav #4
Jul 30, 2010 at 9:58 AM
looks like you're in luck if it supports sata II
zegulas
zegulas #5
Jul 31, 2010 at 6:52 AM
My motherboard is K8M Neo-V, I don't think it supports SATA II.. :(