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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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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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[–] Leminski 11 points 1 month ago (1 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

[–] trxxruraxvr 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] Leminski 2 points 1 month ago

Or ask them! :D

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

2TB SSDs can be had in "single sided" versions where the chips are only on one side. At the moment I don't think there any any 4tb drives that aren't dual sided.

I'm going to assume that mini PC just doesn't have space under the slot for a dual sided SSD. Many laptops are the same way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe it's only got a bios and not uefi? That's the only thing I can think of, but I can't really imagine that's the case on new hw.

I bet disks over 2tb would just work fine.