Upgrading to 4TB HDD

[MG240]

Hi guys,

 

I'm planning to upgrade my disk to 4tb. I'm planning two things for it.

 

Option 1.) Still use my older HDD that holds my OS partition and older files, and simply just add the 4tb one.

Option 2.) Partition 100gb of the 4tb to be used as the OS partition, then the rest be split on documents (d:), games(e;), and etc (f:)

 

Is there anything that I should check first on my system before, to see if my PC can support 4tb of storage? SSDs isn't an option, the price of SSDs on my country is insane, the lowest capacity ones costs more than a good 4TB HDD, shipping it too isn't an option.

 

I'm using a Win 7 Home Prem 64bit, with a mobo with lga1155 socket.

[Molten]

see if there is an available sata port on your motherboard...

[Clubconsoles]

Hi guys,

 

I'm planning to upgrade my disk to 4tb. I'm planning two things for it.

 

Option 1.) Still use my older HDD that holds my OS partition and older files, and simply just add the 4tb one.

Option 2.) Partition 100gb of the 4tb to be used as the OS partition, then the rest be split on documents (d:), games(e;), and etc (f:)

 

Is there anything that I should check first on my system before, to see if my PC can support 4tb of storage? SSDs isn't an option, the price of SSDs on my country is insane, the lowest capacity ones costs more than a good 4TB HDD, shipping it too isn't an option.

 

I'm using a Win 7 Home Prem 64bit, with a mobo with lga1155 socket.

 

As long as you are not running in RAID then you just plug it in.

[Tagiau]

Make sure you have the correct cables and sata ports. 

[MG240]

Yep, have plenty of other sata ports available. Nope, not running RAID btw.

 

How about the UEFI bios thingy??