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What is the technical explanation to limit size of sdd to connect? (lemmy.pe1uca.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pe1uca.dev/post/1136490

I'm checking this mini pc https://www.acemagic.com/products/acemagic-ad08-intel-core-i9-11900h-mini-pc

It says the M2 and SATA ports are limited to 2TB, but I can't imagine why that's the case.
Could there be a limit on the motherboard? On the CPU?
If most likely this is done in software (windows) probably it won't matter since I'm planning to switch to linux.

What I want to avoid is buying it and being unable to use an 8TB drive.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Support maybe? As in, we've (Acemagic) tested a bunch of 2TB drives that all work. We have not tested larger.

If you plug in a 4TB drive it should work, but we won't help you if it does not.

Unfortunately you need to either take the risk or find someone else who has.

Only other thing I can think of is not having GPT support and only MBR but that's frankly absurd these days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately you need to either take the risk or find someone else who has.

Or just ask them. There's a support email address right on there linked page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Or ask them! :D