HPZ800 Server Does Not Support Hard Drives Larger Than 2TB

justyy (84)in #wherein • 6 years ago (edited)

I have been using HPZ800 Server for a long time (the server was first made in 2010 - and I purchased it on Ebay at 2015). The server is very powerful even it is today (10 years old).

The HPZ800 server has two physical CPUs: 2 x intel XEON X5650 - peak frequency 2.67 GHz and with Turbo and Overclock - you can reach up to 3.6GHz (although you would need a more powerful CPU fan to prevent overheating) - the normal temparature for CPU is around 80 degrees.

One X5650 CPU has 12 cores so 2 CPUs show 24 cores in Task Manager

However you have to turn on the Hyber Threading settings in BIOS to utilitize 24 cores.

There are 4 SATA-3 (Peak rate 3.0Gbp/s) hard drives slots

I recently purchased 2 Seagate 4TB Harddrives - I know Seagate HDD has a higher failing rate (annual failure rate (AFR)) but I intended to use two to make a RAID 1 mirror using the Windows Storage Space.

However, the HDDs are not recongized at all by the system. Therefore I have to replace them with Western Data (WD) 2TB HDD - I purchased 3 of them so that I can replace the dying HDDs (they have been running for more than 5 years and started recently to showing yellow warning signs by CrystalDiskInfo software).

I guess I was lucky this time because I managed to backup the data from the HDD before it is about to die.

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