long story short, i am looking to upgrade my storage...in a big way. i currently have 2x 250GB drives and let me tell you brothers, its not enough.
i'm thinking i would like to go with 2x 3TB or even 4TB drives. here's the issue though: my system is getting a bit old. i have no plans to upgrade at the moment because its simply unnecessary for the games i play. that and i'm a cheap bastard. i usually run my systems into the ground.
my concern is will my mainboard support drives of this size properly? mainboard is a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L rev. 2. after looking on gigabyte's website, i cannot find any information about this. i understand there may be a problem with UEFI support?
so the question is do i upgrade soon or wait until i am ready to rebuild the entire thing? what other options do i have? thinking along the lines of external USB drives and RAID add in cards.
as a side question, if the system is in sleep mode is it possible to have it wake automatically when another system on my network attempts to access shared files on this system?
i'm thinking i would like to go with 2x 3TB or even 4TB drives. here's the issue though: my system is getting a bit old. i have no plans to upgrade at the moment because its simply unnecessary for the games i play. that and i'm a cheap bastard. i usually run my systems into the ground.
my concern is will my mainboard support drives of this size properly? mainboard is a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L rev. 2. after looking on gigabyte's website, i cannot find any information about this. i understand there may be a problem with UEFI support?
so the question is do i upgrade soon or wait until i am ready to rebuild the entire thing? what other options do i have? thinking along the lines of external USB drives and RAID add in cards.
as a side question, if the system is in sleep mode is it possible to have it wake automatically when another system on my network attempts to access shared files on this system?