Will my early 09 MacPro support 3Tb internal drives?

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Will my early 09 MacPro support 3Tb internal drives?

As my machine is filling up and 3Tb drives have become available, the question arises: Can I install, and utilize the full capacity of 3Tb on my early '09 MacPro?

I'm looking at a couple of 3Tb WD blacks to replace the original 1Tb's that came with the machine. All my bays are filled.

Thanks for any pointers...

gf

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2x2.26GHz QuadXeon 16Gb 6300MHzDDR3

Posted on Apr 10, 2012 12:59 PM

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The hatter

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Apr 10, 2012 1:48 PM in response to fulano

4TB Hitachi - I didn't see or hear of 3TB from WD yet, just the Green series.

Review of some tests and OWC has 4TB

MacPerformance Blog

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Apr 10, 2012 2:27 PM in response to fulano

If your Mac Pro does not have an Apple RAID card 3 TB drives will be fine. Be sure use Disk Utility to partition with GUID for the full capacity to work.

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