Problem with 3TB drive

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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Dear readers,

as a not so proud owner of 8pieces of 3.0TB WD30EZRX drives - green variety. I have a problem. When connected to the machine via USB external closure Linux only sees about 800GB of storage. I have not yet connected directly to mobo because I don’t have any ports free. I have used 2TB and 3TB drives before and have had no problems. Actually I tried the USB enclosure with an old 2TB seagate and it worked. So there is now something I am doing wrong. I am suspecting I have to set some jumper. Any help would be highly appreciated. The seller just wished good luck and told that I can always return them but I would rather not because I need storage - now.

Best Regards

Kari

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i think its the usb case that is the cullprit

it can only adress maximum 2tb drives

free 1 port of your motherboard and confirm that your motherboard accepts the new drive

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If it isn’t the case make sure that Linux can recognize  more than 2T. In Windows drives larger than 2T need to be formatted GPT instead of MRB.

Joe

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Please check this thread for an enclsure that works!  http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop-Portable-Drives/30EZRX/m-p/422132/highlight/false#M9597

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