What is the max all HDDs capacity on Z220 CMT

[Gildi59]

Hello,

I would like to know what is the maximum capacity manageable by a Z220 CMT all disks combined

I would ike to install 4x6To 3.5" HDD in that minitour. Is that possible ?

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Dear @Gildi59 

according to quickspecs  , the maximum is 2 TB HDD

[itsmyname]

@Gildi59 -- what is the maximum capacity manageable by a Z220 CMT all disks combined

There is no "combined" limit -- each disk-drive is independent.

The Other Person showed the maximum-size per disk-drive that you could have purchased directly from HP. That might be an old document that does not reflect the much-larger capacity of currently-available disk-drives.

Exactly what model-number & motherboard do you have? Years ago, motherboards limited the maximum size of each disk-drive to 2 Terabytes. But, current motherboards can support up to 8 TB per disk-drive.

How many SATA sockets do you have on the motherboard? One for the CD/DVD, and several more, for multiple HDD/SDD devices? That limits the number of disk-drives that you can connect. You could remove the CD/DVD hardware, and purchase an external CD/DVD that connects to a USB port, to free-up one SATA socket.   Also, you could add a PCIe card that has several SATA sockets. 

What is the wattage of your computer's power-supply? If you are adding many disk-drives, you may need an upgrade to your power-supply.  Additionally, you will need many power-leads on the power-supply, to give power to each disk-drive.