AR180 F1 - Looking for recommendation of hard drives can only support

russellharrower

I just purchased AR180 F1, and I am looking for some basic information regrading the hard drives. The manual said the AR180 F1 can only support

1. Up to 24TB SATA HDD(2TB3.5"x12HDDs) 
2. Up to 7.2TB SAS(600GB3.5”x12HDDs)

But it does not tell mw which drives I should go and purchase. I am also wondering if it could "technically" take say a 10TB 3.5 SATA hard drive and use that.

The reason I ask is if I based the document - https://static.acer.com/up/Resource/Acer/Servers/Rack/AR180_F1/Docs/20111104/acerAR180%20F1%20spec%20long%20v2.5.pdf

It was made in 2010 and in 2009 the largest hard drive according to Google was a 2TB SATA hard drive. So is this just their documentation limit or is this a real limit?

[Edited the thread to add the issue detail]

JackE

Yes, you should be able to use a single larger capacity drive if it's converted from MBR partitioning to GPT partitioning to overcome MBR's 2TB partition size limit. 3.5" SATA3 drives up to about 20TB capacities are readily available for about $400usd.