xserve update drives, which 3 or 4Tb drive works?

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Gerard Dirks Author

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xserve update drives, which 3 or 4Tb drive works?

Hello

We have an Xserver from 2007 with one 1Tb Seagate ST31000340NS Drive & 2 pcs 2 Tb Hitachi HUA723020ALA640

This Server runs an an Filemaker Server App

Now we want to replace those 3 drive with new ones in the Size of 3 or 4 Tb

Has someone experience which drive are working. I reminder this xserve is very critical. In the past it doesn't recognize WD drives

Regards

Gérard

Modell-Identifizierung: Xserve1,1

Prozessortyp: Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2 GHz

Anzahl der Prozessoren: 2

Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 4

L2-Cache (pro Prozessor): 4 MB

Speicher: 12 GB

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 12:09 AM

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Jan 11, 2013 9:27 PM in response to Gerard Dirks

The problem is, depending on the OS version your are running, you probably won't be able to recognize anything larger than 2.2TB. I have an Xserve 2,1 and I can't get anything larger than 2.2 TB yet. I can't even partition 1Tb and 2TB on a 3TB drive. WD and Seagate no go. My understanding it is a hardware limitation. My MacPro has no issues recognizing any size drive.

MrN

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