Take the 2-minute tour ×  closed as too localized by DragonLord,
Canadian Luke, soandos, 8088, ChrisF Nov 4 '12 at 11:23   Note
that the question could be read a 'any normal eSATA docking
station'. If asked specifically about a single model then it is
too localised for this site. –  Hennes Nov 3 '12 at 18:50  2
Answers 2  up vote 1 down vote accepted  There is nothing
magical about 3TB drives. There is a software limit where MSDOS
style partition tables can't hold more than 2TB but that's not
too important for an external disk, only if you want to use it
as a boot drive. So yes, that and everything else that supports
the SATA standard supports 3TB SATA drives. The problem is
simply not on that level.  For a more precise answer, the so-
called MBR partition table format has 4 bytes for the first
sector and 4 bytes for the length of the partition. Now, the
length is measured in sectors and the common sector size is 512
bytes. Calculate 2^32*512 = 2,199,023,255,552 bytes. WD have
chosen to go with 4KB sector for