FG

Tried to use my 3TB drive in a USB enclosure, now reports only 746GB even internally

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20267413 views
Confidence Score0%
0%

Problem

I have two 3TB Hitachi 5k3000 Desktar drives that I want to use as data drives, not boot drives. When I was originally trying to install them I wanted to mirror them using my hardware raid but I couldn't get them recognized, my motherboard is pretty old (P5N32-SLI) but the BIOS and RAID firmware ar…

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

1 Fix

Canonical Fix
Unverified Fix
New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: Tried to use my 3TB drive in a USB enclosure, now reports only 746GB even internally

Low Risk

Typical USB drive enclosures have historically only supported up to 1.5 TB of capacity. I have a feeling this has something to do with the 32bit nature of the enclosure, but I could be totally off on that one. Make sure the enclosure's specification…

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Sign in to verify this fix

Environment