Mac Pro (late-2006) and 1.5TB Hard Drives

dmetzcher · #1 October 27th, 2009, 10:53 AM

I have a Mac Pro from late-2006. I'd like to put three 1.5TB drives in it (one for the OS and two raided together for Time Machine -- I'm doing this now with three 500GB drives).

I've heard that some motherboards cannot support drives up to that size (on computers manufactured by companies other than Apple). Will this be a problem for me with my Mac Pro?

Thanks!

earthsaver · #2 October 27th, 2009, 11:04 AM

Should be fine. Check with OWC.

dmetzcher · #3 October 27th, 2009, 11:04 AM

Some additional info... not sure if it helps.

Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): (removed)
Hardware UUID: (removed)

dmetzcher · #4 October 27th, 2009, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by earthsaver

Should be fine. Check with OWC.

Thanks. Good idea. I'll check with OWC.

ElDiabloConCaca · #5 October 27th, 2009, 11:36 AM

Your computer will support drives of infinite size.

Well, technically it won't, but they don't manufacture a drive that is "too big" for your computer to utilize. You may be thinking back to the days of IDE and 48-bit LBA where some motherboards would not be able to utilize space on drives greater than 128GB.

This is a non-issue at this point with SATA. Get the largest hard drive you can, and it will be fully compatible.