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Hello everyone, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that replied to my question. I really do appriectate all the advice that was offered. Here is an update. I did get an 8TB hard drive and it is working perfect for me. It looks like Dell was wrong when they told me it wouldn't work.

IAmATeaf I was surprised when I read the what Dell posted. It never crossed my mind that there could be a hard drive size limitation. Hopefully they just havent updated there manual.

SouthernYankee, So just to be sure before I purchase the 8Tb hard drive you are saying that I will be able to remove the 2.5 1TB hard drive and replace it with a 3.5 8TB hard drive and everything should work even though Dell says there is a limitation of 2TB? Is this correct?

It's going to be used for video recording only with Blue Iris. It will also have Windows 10 as the OS. Do you think the 8Tb will work?

I forgot to post the link on the hard drive limitation mentioned on page 19, and page 20 https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/optiplex-3080-desktop_owners-manual6_en-us.pdf

Hello everybody, I'm new here and and in need of some advice. Maybe someone here might be able to help me out. I just ordered a Dell Optiplex 3080. It has a a 512Gb SSD and also a second 1TB 2.5 hard drive. What I want to do is remove the 2.5 hard drive and replace it with a 3.5 hard drive 8TB...