Seagate 1.5 tb drive

i was looking at putting three 1.5 tb drives in my new octo to accompany my 1tb system drive. i notice apple only says up to 4 tb of storage. will i have issues if i try the three 1.5 tb drives. Also I have read alot of good and bad on the seagate drives from early this year. Are the current models any better?

The "up to 4 TBs" is a limitation imposed by the fact that only 1 TB drives were available when the specs were written for the computer.
If you want to learn more about Seagate drives this isn't the best place. Do some Google searching for other sites where such discussion may occur. You can also find reviews and benchmarks at Bare Feats, Storage Review, and ,Tom's Hardware Review. Also search this forum for previous discussions.

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Hmmm.. sorry to jump in but...
I Wish I had seen this before I got mine.
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I have bought a Seagate Backup Plus 1TB drive, first time I have selected Mac Windows option which excludes Time Machine to work on it, but now I want to go back and select Only Mac option to activate my Time Machine application. I request you to help me

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