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[JavaLawyer]

I posted this in the DNS-343 forum, but there hasn't been much traffic there lately.
Will this drive properly format and mount as a standard volume (i.e. non-RAID) with the DNS-343/323?


Western Digital Shipping World's First Internal 3TB Hard Drive
We've been stuck at 2TB for what seems like forever, and there's good reason for that. Drive partitions larger than 2.19TB create a unique problem for PCs, and trying to boot from them requires a mish mash of technologies, including the use o***PT partition, a modern 64-bit OS (Vista or Windows 7), and a motherboard equipped with an EFI BIOS.

Despite all this, Western Digital has gone ahead and begun shipping a 3TB hard drive in Caviar Green trim, which qualifies as the largest capacity internal SATA drive around. The drive utilizes four 750GB platters as well as Western Digital's Advanced Format technology, which you can read more about here.

To sidestep the issue of integrating large capacity hard drives into your system, Western Digital also bundles an Advanced Host Controller (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter with its 3TB (and 2.5TB) hard drives, which makes it easier for OSes to locate and use a known driver with correct support for large capacity drives. In other words, you can actually boot from the thing without any crazy voodoo.

The 3TB drive is available now for for $240, while the 2.5TB drive sells for $190.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/western_digital_shipping_worlds_first_internal_3tb_hard_drive

[gunrunnerjohn]

I really doubt it, but you can let us know.

[lookingforinfo]

D-Link does not support the 2TB drives from WD (WD20EARS) that use the advanced format.  It seems extremely doubtful they will support the 3TB drives.

[JavaLawyer]

I really doubt it, but you can let us know.

I'm not going to be the first one to take the plunge.

[tousername]

Hi , just my bit of info for anyone interested.
The Western Digital 3.0TB model WD30EZRS-00J99B0 is being recognized by the dns-323 A1 1.09 as a 2.199GB model. This, as far as the dns-323 is concerned.
As for the drive, it does come with it's own controller,in the form of a 4x pci-x card but on a gigabyte P55UD5 motherboard and on gigabyte's onboard sata controller it is being properly recognized by a Windows 7 64bit OS without the need for it's own card.