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June 25th, 2018 10:00
T3500 upgrading hard drives
Not sure where to post-sorry in advance. I have a t3500 workstation with a build date of 2010 model dcta and reg type of 08055. Currently i have 2 120gb drives in raid0 and 2 500gb drives in raid0. I would like to remove the 2 500gb drives and replace them with 2 8tb drives. Is this possible, is there anything limiting me from doing this? Thank you for your help
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bradthetechnut
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June 27th, 2018 18:00
I Googled max storage capacity for the Precision T3500 and its Dell brochure was referenced. Copied below.
Chassis supports up to four internal SATA drives (8.0TB storage maximum) or three SAS drives (SAS drives require SAS 6/iR controller card)
3.0 gb/s @ 7200 rpm
Up to 2TB with 8MB DataBurst Cache
3.0gb/s @ 10k rpm
Up to 600GB with 16MB DataBurst Cache
SAS 15K rpm
Up to 600GB
SSD
256GB
Dell manuals (pdf) can also be downloaded at Dell.com.
You posted in the right place.☺
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June 27th, 2018 18:00
Thank you so much for the reply. Just to clarify, is the 8.0tb you mentioned total system storage, or most importantly can i hook up two separate 8.0tb drives?
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June 27th, 2018 19:00
You're welcome.☺ Exceeding max storage capacity can severly slow down or freeze a unit. It's a good thing you asked.
The #'s above are totals. Whether 2 or 4 HDDs are used, the max capacity is 8TB without any of the drives having a data burst cache.
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June 27th, 2018 19:00
Outside of editing, I couldn't get the screengrab to show; nor delete.
Here's a link to the spec. sheet if you want it: T3500 Spec. Sheet
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July 17th, 2023 05:00
Hi, I can confirm that I have installed n. 5 x 8 TB Seagate Barracuda harddisks in raid 5 intel software, for a total of 32 TB, bios ver. 17
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July 17th, 2023 11:00
That's pretty good and I'm not surprised. In my years now in doing this forum, I noticed some older Dell models can have max storage capacity exceeded.