2 Tb Limit Bypass?

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  1. Mini

    Mini Well-Known Member

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    Any way to get pass the 2 tb limit? Using windows 7 RC 64 bit, have 2 1.5tb hardrives set up on a raid, but it only lets me use 2, and the other tb is unallocated, cant expand it under disk management. Any ideas?
     
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    Be more specific. What type of RAID are you using? RAID0, RAID 1, RAID5? What RAID card are you using? Onboard? In which case which motherboard?
     
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    Sorry, raid0, onboard, asus m4n82 deluxe, says it supports up to 2 tb for xp/vista, but 7 i heard is supposed to support more.
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    no. NTFS only supports 2TB a partition. Your only choice is to limit your ego and to split the volume into two partitions.

    EDIT:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs
    looks like I"m wrong, but it takes A LOT of work to yield very little benefit and isn't worth the effort for 99% of the population.
     
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    RAID0 is fine right up until your RAID controller fails (and cheap ones do more often than hard drives) and you have 3tb worth of dead information.

    Only RAID worth bothering with on a home PC is RAID1 for redundancy. I have a MacPower Hydra with 4 1.5tb HDDs, paired in RAID1. Since one of the arrays is already full, and the second array is about halfway full, I have tons of information and data that would absolutely kill me to get again.
     
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    that's a lot of porn dude.
     
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    Yet it's still not enough...
     
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    get RAID 5 its the best thing to do, also maby use a NAS instead of you pc to store data, i had 5 1 TB in my old PC when ever i lanned i nearly broke my back, so i got a nice rack mount with removable HDD in the fron and keep it in raid 5 that way its much more stable and if a HDD crashes you can just replace it easy, though it did cost alot for the raid controler
     

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