Q: Installing a 3TB Internal Storage Drive

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ENIGMACODE

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Q: Installing a 3TB Internal Storage Drive

Hi Gang

Wondering if 10.4 will recognize a 3 TB internal storage drive on a older Dual Core G5 desktop? I don't see why not since it easily recognized and formatted a 2 TB drive.

Thanx

Mike

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on May 18, 2015 6:20 PM

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BDAqua

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Once that's completed, I'll still be able to use the drive for 'STORAGE' Yes?

Yes.

Posted on May 18, 2015 10:53 PM

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BDAqua May 18, 2015 6:35 PM in response to ENIGMACODE
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May 18, 2015 6:35 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

Hey!

2.2 TB is the limit for Apple Petition Map, it will need to be an unbootable for PPC Macs GUID Partition Scheme, but still writable/readable.

Any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.4 and later can mount GPT-partitioned disks.

Intel-based Macintosh computers can boot from GPT. By default, the internal hard disk is formatted as GPT.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2166/_index.html
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ENIGMACODE May 18, 2015 8:54 PM in response to BDAqua
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May 18, 2015 8:54 PM in response to BDAqua

Hello BD my ole faithful friend

Ok, so as I understand the situation: I can still use 'Disc Utility' to format the entire disk, (no partitions neccessary), using 'Mac OSX Journaled'. Once that's completed, I'll still be able to use the drive for 'STORAGE' Yes?

I don't need that 3TB internal drive to be 'bootable', its for storage only.

Thank you BD
Mike
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ENIGMACODE May 19, 2015 4:22 PM in response to BDAqua
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May 19, 2015 4:22 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanx BD!
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BDAqua May 19, 2015 5:04 PM in response to ENIGMACODE
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May 19, 2015 5:04 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

You're welcome, glad I could help.
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BDAqua

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May 18, 2015 10:53 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

Once that's completed, I'll still be able to use the drive for 'STORAGE' Yes?

Yes.

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