MacPro1.1 2.66 SATAII size question

[sadie-lady]

The two front bays each have a 250GB HD leaving 1.5TB to split up between the two remaining bays. What is the maximum per bay that this MacPro1.1 can accept? Will a 1TB work in in one bay? I'd like to be able to stick in a larger SATAII than a 500GB.
Thanks.

 

[Dark Dragoon]

You can use whatever capacity hard drive you want in any of the bays.

My Mac Pro 1.1 currently has a 640GB hard drive and 3 x 1TB hard drives in the four sleds.

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

The maximum is whatever sized HDD is currently being manufactured so you can install 4x 2TB drives in there with no problem. People even cram more HDDs in the MP, particularly under the optical drive in the second slot.

 

[sadie-lady]

Thanks for the good news guys!🙂 I didn't know if the MacPro1.1 had a limit total of 2TB 500GB per bay.

 

[sadie-lady]

You can use whatever capacity hard drive you want in any of the bays.

My Mac Pro 1.1 currently has a 640GB hard drive and 3 x 1TB hard drives in the four sleds.

What brand 1TB HD are you using? Seagate? WesternDigital?

 

[Dark Dragoon]

What brand 1TB HD are you using? Seagate? WesternDigital?

I'm using 3 Western Digital WD10EACS (1TB Green Power), they are around a year and a half old. I needed high capacity, quiet drives and I didn't care about the speed of them which is fine for general use anyway.

 

[sadie-lady]

I'm using 3 Western Digital WD10EACS (1TB Green Power), they are around a year and a half old. I needed high capacity, quiet drives and I didn't care about the speed of them which is fine for general use anyway.

Thank you very much.

fwiw: I'm considering the Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD1001FALS