Max Hard drive capacity for sata controllers

[djrock]

Hi, I am looking at getting a couple of new hard drives and don’t know what’s the biggest capacity each of the sata controllers I have supports.


Promise FastTrack S150 TX2plus
Promise SATA 150 TX2 PLUS
Silicon image sil3112 (onboard)


Thankyou

djrock

[d3fiant]

If it is a boot drive then I believe the limit is 2.2TB or there abouts if its a data drive then the limitations are much more relaxed. Its more an issue of what filesystem you use than drive size

[Skinleech]

Are these separate cards, or on-board?

I know that older on-board controllers had drive size limits that could be overcome with BIOS updates, but these was an old socket A machine.

[djrock]

Hi, The Promise FastTrack S150 TX2plus and the Promise SATA 150 TX2 PLUS are pci cards. I have an Adaptec 1210sa pci card and adaptec say on there site max is 1tb hd. So I want to find out what my other cards/onboard can support before I start buying hard drives.

Thankyou

djrock