8TB Internal HDD Limit for Mac Pro?

[pootahauntus]

Dear all,

According to this webpage on Mid 2012 Mac Pro (" http://support.apple.com/kb/SP652 "), Storage
Four 3.5-inch cable-free, direct-attach drive bays with built-in independent 3Gb/s Serial ATA channels; four internal drive carriers included

Up to 8TB of internal storage7 in bays 1 through 4 using hard drives or solid-state drives in the following capacities:
- 1TB or 2TB hard drives, Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache
- 512GB solid-state drive, Serial ATA 3Gb/s

Does that mean we cannot exceed 8Tb of space altogether, and the disks must be in 1tb/2tb (spinning drives) and 512gb (ssd) max? Anyone tried putting a 4TB WD green/black/any color into Mac Pro? 8tb max by today's standards is really a limitation...

 

[53kyle]

I think that was just the maximum you could order from apple, but I am pretty sure you can fit 16 TB with a 4 TB drive in each bay. I'm really not sure though, can someone confirm this please?

 

[MattDSLR]

i'm using 5 bays
DVD ROM bay and 4 bays each outfitted now with WD 4 TB black drives and no extra boxes on my desk to all those new MP minis buyers with a max of 1 tb for $1000.00
I got 20TB for the same price 🙂 in one BOX

 

[ybz90]

There is no technical limitation to 2TB. It's just what was available when the documentation was written.

 

[hfg]

Mine isn't quite that maxxed out, but I do have a pair of 4TB Seagate drives in the drive-bay sleds and they initialized fine and are working flawlessly. If you count the additional 2TB of SSD storage, the systemwide storage is greater than 8TB. 😛

The individual drive bays seem to accept 4TB drives without a problem, even if Apple doesn't offer them oem.


-howard

 

[costabunny]

Posters are correct - that was simply the largest drives as tested by apple at the time of release.

Many of us are running more than that in our setups; I have 13.25TB total in mine.

 

[RoastingPig]

i know someone who has 4 3tb drives in raid 0 in his mac pro

 

[MattDSLR]

There is no technical limitation to 2TB. It's just what was available when the documentation was written.

agree