May I suggest, you don't really ever want to boot from a 3tb drive. The smaller drives are prefered. When you put a ton of stuff on your C drive, it slows your system down and the boots times too. I use a 256 CCD drive for my boot, then have 2 2tb and 1 3tb drive for storage on my PC. One of the 2tb drives holds my outlook email files. I try to keep everything off the SSD drive for system speed.
No, Aurora X-58 is not UEFI ... it's a normal BIOS.
You will know a UEFI system when you see it boot ... it's real fast. Watch something like a new Dell Vostro 460 boot from cold start, and you will see what I mean.
As for the 3tb drive ... make it a non-boot drive so that the BIOS isn't a factor. If it doesn't work on the X-58 controller, try it on the Silicon Image controller.
markshaheen
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July 29th, 2011 06:00
May I suggest, you don't really ever want to boot from a 3tb drive. The smaller drives are prefered. When you put a ton of stuff on your C drive, it slows your system down and the boots times too. I use a 256 CCD drive for my boot, then have 2 2tb and 1 3tb drive for storage on my PC. One of the 2tb drives holds my outlook email files. I try to keep everything off the SSD drive for system speed.
shouah
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July 29th, 2011 20:00
Thanks for the suggestion, however I still want to find out if my motherboard support UFI or not.
Tesla1856
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July 29th, 2011 22:00
No, Aurora X-58 is not UEFI ... it's a normal BIOS.
You will know a UEFI system when you see it boot ... it's real fast. Watch something like a new Dell Vostro 460 boot from cold start, and you will see what I mean.
As for the 3tb drive ... make it a non-boot drive so that the BIOS isn't a factor. If it doesn't work on the X-58 controller, try it on the Silicon Image controller.
markshaheen
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July 30th, 2011 09:00
So if his bios does not recognise the 3tb drive, windows will allow it to be fully converted and used?