[rotuts]

i got a new 3 TB Seagate drive NAS HDD for my MacPro

its an early MacPro w 4 HD bays

when I put these drive in the bay, it asks to initialize them but sees them at 810 GB drives

what gives ? cant a mac pro see these at 3 GB ?

what if I were to place them in an ( old ) firewire 800 drive box and open them on a new iMac running

10.9.x

is there some sort of limitation on HD's that I dont know about ?

many thanks

[rotuts]

Ive done my best to look into this and it seems that this is what happens with the Oxford Chip set

which I take it is in my firewire 800 box, its old and the MacPro

are there any other external boxes that I might swap this into ? any work around for the MacPro ?

I might try to return them to NewEgg but Im betting Ill have to take the " loss " unless i find an affordable

external box, firewire 800 maybe even empty that I can place these in
your help would be greatly appreciated !

[rotuts]

still trying to figure this out

what do people think of this option :

Oyen Digital: Mobius 2-Bay FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0 RAID Enclosure

they seem to offer it w 8 and 16 TB options so that suggests it supports HD's 3TB or greater

Ill try and call them

this seems to be exactly what Im looking for

so I ordered it and will let you all know !

[reader50]

Originally Posted by rotuts 

I got a new 3 TB Seagate drive NAS HDD for my MacPro, its an early MacPro w 4 HD bays.

When I put this drive in a bay, it asks to initialize but sees them at 810 GB drives.

I have 5 TB (Toshiba) HDs in my Mac Pro. They show up fine. Sounds like the partition map has only allocated 810 GB. In Disk Utility, go to the Partition tab, and select the Options button. Select GUID. Then back to the Partition tab, select "1 Partition". Apply.

That should do the trick.

quote fixed for grammar and that annoying short-sentence-paragraph effect.

[Mike Wuerthele]

Yah- that's odd. I've got a 1,1 that takes a 4TB no problem.

Let us know how it goes. All SATA-2 chipsets SHOULD handle up to 6TB with no issue.

[rotuts]

nope tried it again

same 800 gb deal

my Mobius arrieve Friday so will let you know

Ill run it on USB3 as my iMac has this and its said to be faster than F800

wish me Good Fortune !

[rotuts]

I got the Mobius 5 bay RAID system, and am using the USB 3.0 port on the iMac

it partitions the drives I have into 3 TB each, and is very easy to use, quiet enough for me.

2 bay was $ 120, 5 bay was 240 so i went w the 5.

Im very pleased so far. I use it as a 'plain' ext drive box for various HD's .