Maximum hard drive capacity f or hp dv8

I have a HP DV8 with 2 320GB hard drives. I would like to put 2 750 GB WD Black Scorpio drives in the PC. Is this possible?
What is the maximum capacity for this laptop? Thanks.

The problem is the enclosure. The older FireWire to
ATA chip-sets had the 128 GByte limit. Newer ones
don't. Maybe there is a firmware update for the
enclosure.
If there's no firmware update for your enclosure and you decide to buy another one, ones with the Oxford 911 chipset are limited to 128 GB, ones with the Oxford 911+ or higher support drives of larger capacities.
There are other ATA to Firewire chipsets out there, but the Oxfords are generally the most reliable.

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