Mac Pro - 3 Terabyte Hard Drive Recommendations? SSD Boot Drive?

[mdamour]

Howdy...

I've got a 2009 Mac Pro and I have all 4 of my Hard Drive bays filled currently with a mixture of 1TB and 2TB drives. I wanted to start swapping some of my smaller 1TB drives for some of the new larger 3TB drives. I went on NewEgg and was reading that certain operating systems are having a hard time addressing drives with over 2 TB of storage (the system only sees 2.12 TB or something like that of a 3TB drive). Has anyone had luck installing a 3TB drive in a Mac Pro and had the system recognize the entire disk? If so which brand and are you happy with it? I'm running Snow Leopard with all the most recent updates.

I also run my large iTunes library and store quite a few files on my boot drive, and while everything seems to run efficiently I've heard from some people that booting with ONLY the operating system from a SSD really makes the experience snappy. Wondering if anyone out there does this and how they like it.

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

 

[philipma1957]

i buy all my 3tb hdds from this seller on ebay. he has new drives sealed with warranty at the best price going.

150 to 160 offer works.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Western-Digital...ultDomain_0&hash=item4158e6146e#ht_1080wt_883

 

[mdamour]

Thanks for the link... you said you buy all your 3TB drives from him but have you installed them in a Mac Pro and do they show the entire hard drive as usable space?

 

[philipma1957]

Thanks for the link... you said you buy all your 3TB drives from him but have you installed them in a Mac Pro and do they show the entire hard drive as usable space?

yes if you run snow leopard.

i never tried them with leopard
or windows or any other os.



lots of users have them in 2009 and 2010 mac pros

 

[Transporteur]

Mac OS X >= 10.4 can address HFS+ volumes of up to 8EB, which is 8 million Terabytes.

 

[mdamour]

Thank you!