diskpart > 2TB

[E1Designs]

Ok, the hardware RAID 5 is currently at 1.89 TB. My questions is this. If I expand that RAID by adding another drive and go over the 2 TB mark, will Windows 2003 see it as a 2.2 TB volume? The only thing Windows will need to do is perform the diskpart to expand it so that it sees the available space. Anyone with first hand experience thatc an help? It is a Basic disk for obvious reasons, since all manipulation is done at the hardware level.

 

[mrdenny]

I'm not sure if you will be able to set it up as a volume larger than 2 TB. The 32bit max is 2 TB for a physical volume. I've only had a single drive array large enough to create a larger than 2 TB volume before and it wouldn't let me. The vendor said something about 2 TB hidding the max addressable space in a 32bit OS.

Denny
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[E1Designs]

http://www.webconnexxion.com/raid/info_pages.php?pages_id=43

That page seems to make me think I can. I have an Areca card...aye yi yi, the confusion.

 

[LWComputingMVP]

The maximum NTFS volume size is 16 EB (Exabytes). HOWEVER, that is dependent upon the cluster size. 64K clusters are needed to reach the 16 EB size. Using 4K clusters (as most do) you are limited to 2 TB.

From:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/archPart-c.html

Under NTFS, the maximum size of a partition (volume) is in fact 2 to the 64th power. This is equal to 16 binary exabytes, or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. Does that seem large enough for your needs? :^) Well, many problems with PC hard disks occurred when unintentional size limits were imposed by engineers who figured that, for example, "2 gigabytes ought to be enough". However, with 18 billion gigabytes it would seem that you should be safe for a while in NTFS. :^)

 

[mrdenny]

It certiently makes it appear that you can.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000) / MCTS (SQL 2005) / MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)

http://www.mrdenny.com