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I read this post:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/What-s-the-largest-HDD-you-can-...

 

Where they are telling, we can put any size of a HDD in the HP Z620 (3 hot swap bays available without a 5.25 inch enclosure)

But when I read the manual it tells me that there is only a maximum capacity of 12TB in total that can be added to the system. So with other worths I interpret that 3x 4TB maximum.

 

Also the vendor of this 5.25 inch enclosure told me that there is only a maximum capacity of 3x4TB:

https://maxict.nl/startech-com-3-bay-aluminium-trayless-hot-swap-mobile-rack-backplane-voor-35-inch-...

 

This makes me very confusing, because it looks very useless to add an extra 5.25 enclosure when there is only 12TB in total available in the hotswaps and also only 12tb in the 5.25 inch enclosure. So in my head it goes like: when I add a 5.25 enclosure, 6 bays x 2TB = 12TB in total.

 

I did inform myself on YouTube, like most people. And there I found a guy that put 7 hdd's of 10 TB in his system with the same 5.25 enclosure mentioned above. Yes It know it is a HP z840 with 4 hot swaps.

https://youtu.be/nQU90wCCpSc

 

I just want to max out my system and are very curious how I can accomplish this.

 

I will also add another raid card to get extra ports.  

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Internal-SFF-8087-External-SFF-8088/dp/B07ZGYXCP6

 

 

Thanks for your time

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you are not understanding the HP documentation correctly, HP can't test/approve every hard drive or drives that were released after the HP testing the HP docs list the max drive capacity for the largest drives that hp had tested under specific OS's

 

windows 10 and later will support drive capacities that are still not available so as a practical matter any capacity drive can be installed in the z620 as a data drive with one partition when the drive is formatted as "gpt" if using legacy format then you will have to use multiple partitions on the drive

 

the bootable drive capacity is another matter, on the zX20 line you are limited to 3TB in size this limit is due to how the bios calculates drive capacity

 

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you are not understanding the HP documentation correctly, HP can't test/approve every hard drive or drives that were released after the HP testing the HP docs list the max drive capacity for the largest drives that hp had tested under specific OS's

 

windows 10 and later will support drive capacities that are still not available so as a practical matter any capacity drive can be installed in the z620 as a data drive with one partition when the drive is formatted as "gpt" if using legacy format then you will have to use multiple partitions on the drive

 

the bootable drive capacity is another matter, on the zX20 line you are limited to 3TB in size this limit is due to how the bios calculates drive capacity

 

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