Hi @Char,
I find checking the laptop’s specifications are generally a good idea. From:
It would seem the maximum supported here is 2TB. I don’t know if that’s a hardware or software limitation, but that’s according to Dell themselves.
Hope it helps!
Edit:
And, according to this:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1592877&sid=38ecfa355c9a40aa0b9f274575a6cb67#p1592877
You should be fine with 2TB. Max though. (For msdos
partition table, anyway.)