Add a new 4tb hdd to msi p45 platinum ?

I'm planning to add a new 4TB western digital, caviar green  HDD's for my msi p45 platinum motherboard ist work will or use 3 tb .
thank you

Just some notes regarding large drives on the older chipset boards.
The P45 Plat has
• SATAII controller integrated in ICH10R/JMicron® 363 chipset
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports six SATAII ports by ICH10R
- Supports two SATAII ports by JMicron 363, support SATA RAID 0/1/JBOD.
In principle the ICH10R allows amongst Raid capability also the ability(potentially) to handle up to 2TB in AHCI.
What other users with similar boards have however commented on is that they were able to use up to 3TB drives on the JMicron controller, obviously with the latest firmware for that controller and also AHCI. We all know that the JMicron ports are a bit slower than the Intel ports, but that is evident with Asmedia as well.
So when you do test, check both your Intel and JMicron ports and see what they report as the drive capacity in the BIOS.

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    Quote
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