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I recently purchased 4 * 1tb seagate drives and areca 1210 card for a raid 5 setup in windows xp. The previous thread where I talked about it is here http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1277567&highlight=gpt
ok, so I played around and finished the setup last night. Everything seems to work fine. One thing I couldn't figure out is why the volume displayed in My Computer has 2.72 tb as opposed to 2.79tb which is what it is supposed to be(3tb / 1024^3)? I check disk/computer management and in there, it is correctly displayed as have 2.793tb. What happened to 70gb of my storage?
The way I setup greater than 2tb drive is using the build in function of the areca card. It changes the default sector size of 512bytes to 4k bytes. This allows support of up to 16tb, but in the process the manual saids that I could no longer convert the disk to dynamic disk because 4k is not a standard format. What is dynamic disk? is it important? I searched online, but the explanations I found are a bit lacking and confusing. Also the other option for greater than 2tb is using LBA 64. It supports up to 512tb. I don't really know what it does, but my concerns for this whole thing is I am planning to duel boot vista64 and xp32 on a separate 320gb drive. therefore I need to be able to access this storage raid drive from both os. What is the best option here? I heard of GPT, but it only works with windows server 2003? I never used 2003 so how does it compare it xp?
The third thing is, in windows xp, when I initiated the disk and then started formatting, It was way too quick. I did not select quick formatting if that is what you are wondering. I used normal format procedures. I remember formatting a external 500 gb hard drive through usb and it took over an hour, and formatting the internal 320gb sata2 drive took over an hour. Yet this 2.7tb drive took less than 2 minutes. Something is amiss here. How do I know if the terabyte drives I purchased don't have any bad sectors or something. I read alot of newegg comment stating bad drives or whatever, is there some tools I can use to check my drives with? Also what kind of software can I download to test the preformance of the array when it is done and what kind of results should I be expecting?
ok, so I played around and finished the setup last night. Everything seems to work fine. One thing I couldn't figure out is why the volume displayed in My Computer has 2.72 tb as opposed to 2.79tb which is what it is supposed to be(3tb / 1024^3)? I check disk/computer management and in there, it is correctly displayed as have 2.793tb. What happened to 70gb of my storage?
The way I setup greater than 2tb drive is using the build in function of the areca card. It changes the default sector size of 512bytes to 4k bytes. This allows support of up to 16tb, but in the process the manual saids that I could no longer convert the disk to dynamic disk because 4k is not a standard format. What is dynamic disk? is it important? I searched online, but the explanations I found are a bit lacking and confusing. Also the other option for greater than 2tb is using LBA 64. It supports up to 512tb. I don't really know what it does, but my concerns for this whole thing is I am planning to duel boot vista64 and xp32 on a separate 320gb drive. therefore I need to be able to access this storage raid drive from both os. What is the best option here? I heard of GPT, but it only works with windows server 2003? I never used 2003 so how does it compare it xp?
The third thing is, in windows xp, when I initiated the disk and then started formatting, It was way too quick. I did not select quick formatting if that is what you are wondering. I used normal format procedures. I remember formatting a external 500 gb hard drive through usb and it took over an hour, and formatting the internal 320gb sata2 drive took over an hour. Yet this 2.7tb drive took less than 2 minutes. Something is amiss here. How do I know if the terabyte drives I purchased don't have any bad sectors or something. I read alot of newegg comment stating bad drives or whatever, is there some tools I can use to check my drives with? Also what kind of software can I download to test the preformance of the array when it is done and what kind of results should I be expecting?