Can my motherboard support HDDs over 400 GB

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    Can my motherboard support HDDs over 400 GB


    Can my motherboard support HDDs over 400 GB? My motherboard model is EM61SM/EM61PM.

    Does anyone with my motherboard have any HDD limitations?
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    I just made a comment on your other thread LOL...
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    That board is supposedly a Foxconn MCP61SM-AM; rebranded by Acer. I am currently trying to dig up more info.
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    Above is a link to a guy claiming to have your board and "1 terabyte" of storage, but we don't know if that is all on one drive and if it is reliable info.
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    I found this page

    Destructoid - The-Excel's Community Blog

    He has one drive with 500 GB space, although I don't know if it's an internal or external HDD. At least it narrows down the search a bit?

    Nevermind, it's an external.
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    Nikolay said:
    Can my motherboard support HDDs over 400 GB? My motherboard model is EM61SM/EM61PM.

    Does anyone with my motherboard have any HDD limitations?
    If you have a 160GB hard drive at the moment, and can use all of it, that means that your motherboard supports LBA48 addressing (> 137GB).

    I believe that means that any current HD should work, including the largest (2TB).
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    It only shows 139 GB to actually be usable.
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    Foxconn Support - Download

    Above is a link to the Foxconn board manual. I looked through it and saw no overt references to HD supported size. The board uses an NVidia chipset.
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    Nikolay:

    What is the model number of your Acer PC?? Is it an AST 180?

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    Above link has this info:

    By nucleus on 05-31-2009, 03:03 PM
    I have an Acer AST180.
    I got it in 2007 from the Circut City deal for $170...when taking the monitor back.
    Ive put XP on it.
    Ive put another 1tb harddrive in it and altogther 4 gigs of ram. it works great, but could use a new fan on the back of case.
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