Terabyte Drives and Win 7? Question?

When i was on the phone with tech support getting my computer fixed...(video card died. Got it replaced last week, very happy atm.) The tech told me, when i mentioned i was considering upgrading to Win 7, that my HDD may have issues cause he heard Win 7 doesn't play nice with SATA-II TB drives. Is that true? I've did some Googling and have read, basically, yes and no accounts. So i'm at a loss atm as to what to do. I've read Win 7 is better for gaming... And that's what this rig is all about. Below is a list of whats in the computer. Since you guys play my main game, and are the tech heads on this board, i'm hoping you can tell me if it's safe to upgrade or not.

Quantity Item Description

1 Intel® Core™ i7-965 Extreme - Level 2 (Factory O/C'd to 3.73GHz)

1 Victory Red Anodized Aluminum Chassis with X-Panel

1 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHZ (3x2GB DIMM)

1 Dell USB Consumer Multimedia Keyboard

1 No Monitor

1 nVidia GeForce GTX280 1024MB

1 1TB - SATA-II, 3GB/S, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache

1 Dell 19-in-1 Media Card Reader with Bluetooth 2.0

1 Genuine Windows Vista® 64-bit Home Premium (English) Service Pack 1

1 Premium Optical USB Mouse

1 No Modem Requested

1 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language

1 Single Drive: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)

1 Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

1 No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)

1 Microsoft® Works 9

1 McAfee Security Center with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 36-months

1 4Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis

1 CompleteCare Accidental Damage Protection, 4 Year

1 Windows Vista™ Premium

1 Dell Remote Access, free basic service

1 Dell CPU Liquid/TEC Cooling ATX Unit

For what it's worth, I'm on a SATA II 1TB HDD on Win7 and have had no problems.

Wow. £4k PC right there. Overkill :P

Running two SATA-II 1TB drives here side-by-side with Windows 7. No issues whatsoever.

Running fine -> SATA-II 1TB drive

It would amaze me if there WERE any issues frankly; ever since WinXP SP1? there haven't been any problems with size, and even before that as long as your BIOS supported the drive the only limitation was partition size.

I won't say it's impossible for the drive size to cause a problem since I've been working with and building PC's for long enough not to totally discount much of anything other than maybe the color of the case, but I'd find the size of a HD to be highly unlikely to cause an issue.

(On the case issues it's just like sports cars, EVERYONE knows the red ones are the fastest)

Betting that the problem isn't with the drives themselves.

Betting the problem is one of the following:

1. Certain cheapie controllers have problems with drives above 1TB due to them not having sufficient resources to address the drive properly.
2. Bad chipset drivers
3. Running the SATA drive in IDE compatibility mode rather than native SATA.

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I kind of recall that early last year there was a pretty large shipment of 1TB hard drives that had some sort of manufacturing defect. I know that for a while the desktop system supplier I go through at work had to jump through a few hoops to get drives from a "clean" shipment instead to fulfill my open orders.

The tech person you spoke with might be thinking of this temporary halt on terrabyte drives when he says they cause issues with Win 7. If so, we're supposedly well past that issue now.

Anyway... Like many others in the thread, I also have a 1TB drive installed in my Win 7 machine at home, and I've had no problems with it other than a power cord that came loose when I moved the system.

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