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beardednut
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July 12th, 2024 22:47
Big SATA HDDs in a Tower 5820
I was just wondering if anyone has tried and successfully used bigger hard drives than the 12TB drives Dell says are the limit... I was thinking about making a small family file server with 4 x Seagate Exos 20TB drives I have lying around, and this little workstation would be perfect for that.
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Posted July 13th, 2024 06:15
@bradthetechnut Thanks for answering!! And yeah... I suppose I can just try them. I just have to exchange one of the NVME U.2 backplanes with a SATA one first...lol. Was just looking for an easy answer before I did the work. ;)
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Posted July 14th, 2024 02:36
You're welcome. :) On many Dell's, including some Precision's, the max spec for storage can be exceeded.
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bradthetechnut
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Posted July 13th, 2024 02:55
12TB is just what Dell tested with the 5820 back in 2018. No reason why you can't try 20TB. At worst, if it doesn't work, PC may freeze.