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July 28th, 2011 16:00
Support for 3TB drives
Aside from trying, is there a way to determine if my Aurora motherboard can support booting from a 3TB (or higher) drive in either AHCI or RAID mode? The "Alienware Aurora Comprehensive Specifications" manual doesn't go into this detail.
Specifically whether the motherboard, and the Intel RAID controller, supports UFI method of booting (vs. BIOS method of booting)?
Here is my chipset information:
Northbridge= Intel X58 rev. 13
Southbridge= Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev. 00
BIOS = A11
RAID option ROM version= 8.5.0.1030
DMI Baseboard Info= model 0H869M, revision A00
Thanks.
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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?