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dot77

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May 11th, 2018 20:00

Inspiron 560, Windows 7, 10TB drive

I have an older Inspiron 560 with Windows 7. I am trying to install a 10TB hard drive as a secondary (not primary system) drive. This drive is for music and videos. It is only seeing 1.09TB. I have it setup as GPT. Just to be sure the drive is OK, I installed it in an XPS desktop (Windows 10) I just got and I was able to see the whole 10TB and format it. Is there something I am missing here? Any recommendations?

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Mary G

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May 13th, 2018 08:00

Considering the age of that model, the size of the giant drive is probably not supported. The last bios update was 6 years ago--7/2012. Make sure you have that bios. It might have provided support for bigger hard drives, but it doesn't say that in the bios description.

dot77

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May 14th, 2018 19:00

I had a feeling this would be the case. I will check the firmware. I am buying a new XPS computer and my plan was to use my old computer (the inspiron 560) as a Plex Media Server. Is there any type of pci card or something that could be used to make it work? If not then I will be getting a synology NAS.

Tesla1856

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May 14th, 2018 20:00

@dot77wrote:
my plan was to use my old computer (the inspiron 560) as a Plex Media Server.

Is there any type of pci card or something that could be used to make it work? 

Inexpensive 2-tb spinning HDD should work for Favorite-Files in Inspiron-560 for Plex-Server ...
until you get the Synology setup. I suggest a 4-bay or larger for Hybrid-RAID-5.

DELL-Chris M

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May 15th, 2018 06:00

 

The largest tested/validated drives in the 2009 Inspiron 560 were =
H184K 1.5TB Seagate Brinks
9V4PG 1TB Western Digital XL500M
897TK 1TB Western Digital XL500
C652M 1TB Western Digital XL333
0HF1N 1TB Hitachi Jupiter

dbdbdbdb

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February 15th, 2020 17:00

I have a 530 happily running a Seagate 8TB disk for nearly 5 years now.  However I have just tried to upgrade to a 10TB Western Digital and the BIOS is reporting the new 10TB as failed.  The furthest I have got so far is  a driver install began for it but failed, and HDTune saw it couple of times but doesn't often.  When it did it reported all blocks red.  I suspect the drive is not the problem though.  Could be this SATA pin issue https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Fix-the-33V-Pin-Issue-in-White-Label-Disks-/  

I have the latest BIOS 1.0.18 24/2/2009.  My 530 is the Quad Q660 model - plenty of CPU left in her.  

Tesla1856

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February 15th, 2020 20:00

@dbdbdbdb wrote:

I have a 530 happily running a Seagate 8TB disk for nearly 5 years now.  However I have just tried to upgrade to a 10TB Western Digital and the BIOS is reporting the new 10TB as failed. 

It might have failed already. Did you get it as a bare-drive, and it got shipping via UPS, etc?

These high-capacity spinning drives are very fragile inside. If it got bumped too hard, it is likely crashed already.

You could test/try it on another PC, USB-drive-Tester, or maybe a Orico HDD enclosure.

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