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2011/04/23 10:07:52 (permalink)
Looking all over may different sites some give the impression a 3tb drive will show full 3tb without a UEFI bios and without the expansion card. What most sites give the impression of is you only need the UEFI bios is if you plan to use it as drive to install windows on and boot from it. I know you certain versions of windows to support it which i do run windows 7 x64. I would like a straight answer if I will get full 3tb without the extra card on a p55 board. I haven't been able to get a straight answer on the matter.
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    Re:P55 and 3tb hard drives 2011/04/23 10:16:22 (permalink)
    need bios update from EVGA , gigabyte and asus make this update to use 3T on P55 mainboard

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    Re:P55 and 3tb hard drives 2011/05/10 23:26:49 (permalink)
    almost 3 weeks and since no other post cept for a bios update which there is none, reading on 2 sites both are saying as long as you have a 64bit OS that support GPT you are fine to use full 3tb for a secondary storage drive. Only time you will run in to an issue is if you try to boot from it then you will need the UEFI.
     
    http://www.anandtech.com/...-3tb-drives-reviewed/2
     
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/19871
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    Re:P55 and 3tb hard drives 2011/05/11 02:04:04 (permalink)
    I make a test on  SATA3 card , win7 64 boot ok just need a card with bios boot option , rocket620 is fine a have this for 50€
     

    Z690 classified start build
     
    X299 DARK  7900X 7740x soon 7980X
    X299 APEX
    X299 rampage Extreme
     
    E762 W3520@4.2  E679 2600k
    E760 X980 
    E761 I920
    E770 I950
    and SR2's  and SRX's
    Z87 classified , MVIE built with 4770K
    Z97 classified , ftw Z97 ,  MFVII  only wait for gigabyte LN2 
    X99 series.... classified , FTW , RE5 , oc formula, profesional , X11 , soc force , msi gaming9ack

    X79 classified, dark and RIVE, RIVBE,, xtreme11
    and many classified a panel from EVGA  no just one sample

    and other  DFI giga etc  

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