can the motherboard support 5 hard drives?
753533
Yes. It has 6 SATA connectors. One for your optical drive, 5 for your hard drive. Or if you no longer wanna use your optical drive, have 6 hard drives.
109219
If you are referring to drive connectors then it has 6, you can use SATA drives but for 2.5" you'll need a tray adapter.
2005135
Last i read it will suppourt 3 tb drives. Dont know if it will take 4 tb drives.
506901
You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.
1032197
The Synology website says that 6TB drives are supported. Check the drive that you are planning on getting with their list to be sure.
1094855
Assuming you have the letters available for the drives and each drive is powered, you could but the transfer speed will be horrible. I don't think I've pushed harder than 5 drives hooked up
523597
It appears that it will take up to 3 hard drives, as in the shopping options you can specify this many. (Source: http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/cto.do)
1032198
I added five drives and I had no problem. I did make sure that the drives I added were the same size as the existing drives in the NAS
1235416
I put 5 each 3tb WD Red drives in my Thecus and set up a RAID 6. I think you can use any number of drives of any size. Just keep in mind that if you use RAID it will only be a percentage of the smallest drive in the array.
197973
No, you can't put there 6 3.5" hard drive in. It's only four bay for 3.5" hard drives. But, you can squeeze two 2.5" hard drives as well.
1434286
Greetings,Great question!Yes, absolutely. The two drive types can be installed and utilized in conjunction with one another.Best regards,MITXPC
2049703
There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the... » Read More There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. « Show Less
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According to their website, it supports up to 6 TB, so you are good to go with 5 TB.
1772346
If you mean will it boot from a multi TB drive, Yes, it has uefi bios.Most motherboards will support them with GPT format but only as a second drive.
1570069
yes you can...i put 3 hd ..2 x 500gb seagate and 1 of 1 tr hitachi and work good.
1006830
No. The days of internal expansion are over. Suggest you take a look at the 2013 model, you can 4 Drives.
581384
There are 4 quick removal and you can use the top 5.25 bay with an adaptor to give you 5 total. I'm running 2TB drives for my NAS, so I can't speak to bigger drives. I would suggest low power drives if you run 5 drives for thermal reasons.