Big hard disks in older Dell Poweredge servers

the 2960 is something like 7 years old so the technology at that stage would be limited as to what it supports.
To be fair they'll be limits on todays hardware as well. so in 7 years time you'll be asked the same question perhaps ?
But yes the spec sheet agrees with you 2TB is the max size for a single disk,

Hi,We've just decommissioned some older servers from our school and my manager is looking to re purpose them into just some spare storage for back ups.We have a Dell Poweredge 2950 which according to Dell's spec has a PERC 6/1 card in it.I'm not terribly knowledgable on RAID cards.According to various google searches that come up, this card doesn't support 2TB disks.We are looking to get a pair of 8Tb disks for this. Is it worth looking to get a better disk controller card for this, or is this not really feasible?I've got two HP Microservers (original N36L and a newer G8, one is getting a 3TB upgrade next week) so maybe one of these might be better for a cheap big storage solution.I'm kind of disappointed that so many enterprise grade servers don't have the means to take rapidly more generous capacity hard disks.
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