What is the largest HDD that is compatible with a MBP early 2011 15"?

My current storage setup is one 256 GB SSD as the boot drive in the original location for the hard drive. I then removed the SuperDrive and put my original hard drive in an optibay. I have since run out of storage (lots of audio samples etc.) and I'm looking at a 3TB internal hard drive. Or around that size anyway.
Can anyone advise as to what the maximum capacity for my laptop is?
Thanks.

Have a look at this article to give you an idea on your negotiated link speed when you install a hard drive in your optical drive bay.
installing a SATA III hard drive will not give you any issues - it might give you a negotiated link speed of 3GB/s instead of 6GB/s.
http://blog.macsales.com/10433-macbook-pro-2011-models-and-sata-3-0-6-0gbs-updat e-5272011

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