Max Internal SATA Hard Disk capacity for Asus mobo P5Q

[mwvirk]

i have old asus P5Q mobo and Internal SATA Hard Disk are installed with the size of 1TB (boot) 2x1.5TB (slave) 1x2TB

i want to know what could be the max HD capacity i can use on this mobo. can i use 4 5 or 6 TB - if not then what will be the max size i can use.

[StyM]

it should be able to support even a 10tb hdd.

[mwvirk]

i want to install additional new HD for data without any partition.
bootable is a separate HD of 1TB
so; mean to say, other than the bootable, i can install additional HD of any size 4/6/8/10TB SATA without making any partition but i have to format it using GPT
i'm using Win-10 - if i plug new SATA HD of size 6 or 8 TB, then windows will deduct it and will give me option to format with GPT

[StyM]

anything above 2tb use GPT.

[mwvirk]

thanks for your help. i have windows 10 64 bit and i am planning to buy new HD of 8TB or 10TB for data (not for bootable) - i'm not willing to make any partition.

[zanzabar]

you should also be able to make a raid array up to 32GB and a smaller raid partition of under 2TB to boot to since they detect as different disks.

[mwvirk]

i assume that you are thinking that i want to install bootable.
i am using c: 1TB NTFS as a bootable.
also have d: 2TB NTFS.
i want to replace my d: 2TB NTFS to 4TB or 5TB or 6TB
i read here that formatting such big HD using GPT will work on this mobo asus p5q (processor is Q6600)- and this is what i want to confirm before buying it.
i can afford 4, 5 or 6TB HD but can't get new rig.
also note that i'm going to save mostly big ISO files of games (some are +50 GB) and will convert my blurays and save on this d: drive (movies might b 4 - 10GB each)
now play confirm if i can really install such big HD

[JasmineJasmine]

i want to install additional new HD for data without any partition.
bootable is a separate HD of 1TB
so; mean to say, other than the bootable, i can install additional HD of any size 4/6/8/10TB SATA without making any partition but i have to format it using GPT
i'm using Win-10 - if i plug new SATA HD of size 6 or 8 TB, then windows will deduct it and will give me option to format with GPT