5TB drive giving me grief

Curio · 3 Jul 2015 at 04:19

Trying to get a 5TB drive working in a 2011 HP Xeon workstation. It's not playing nice. If I use MBR, Windows 7 won't even find it during setup. If I use GPT, Windows finds it, but only sees it as a 600GB drive :confused:

I've tried:

Updated BIOS to latest version.
Installed latest chipset drivers.
Tried a different SATA port.

DiskPart also only sees it as 600GB and won't let me expand it. Tried cleaning it in DiskPart also - no difference.

Formatted it from another machine (works fine there) and stuck it back in the HP. Nothing.

I've come to the conclusion the HP just doesn't like the drive. Anybody got ant other tricks I can try?

Ta!

FloppyPoppy · 3 Jul 2015 at 05:56

What sata port is this using? im pretty sure older ones can't read that size of drive

lude1962 · 3 Jul 2015 at 08:17

intel rst loaded?

smogsy · 3 Jul 2015 at 08:42

im pretty its down to the chipset/sata controllers

i sold my msi mpower z77 recently and the buyer said it was the first series to support 3TB+ drives

not sure if thats correct. but heads up.

zakblood · 3 Jul 2015 at 10:04

the reliability of anything over 2tb in size makes me think twice for anything bigger atm, so i'll stick with a box full of older 20x2tb drives and hot swap

wetpants · 5 Jul 2015 at 07:34

Did you get this sorted?

The best thing to do is to use this as a secondary drive with another hard drive <2tb as a boot drive.