HP MediaSmart WHS

[vischo]

Can anyone confirm a limit to the amount of storage for the HP MediaSmart Server?

I have read that no storage limit exists for WHS software, but there is a 2.25TB limit per drive bay in the HP MSS?

 

[nitrobass24]

Per drive bay?
I mean yea I guess nothing larger than 2tb....i dont know of a drive larger than that.

 

[vischo]

For the future though.

Is that some type of x86 limitation? 2.25TB (advertised) meaning something of 2TB per disk.

 

[Ockie]

There is a 2tb volume limit under WHS. So yes, in this case it would be a 2tb drive. But you can have 100 2tb drives in a pool without any issues.

 

[vischo]

There is a 2tb volume limit under WHS.

Found out why
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whssoftware/thread/52d8f5ca-2ce9-4be4-8563-9ef633fc6e44

WHS (Server 2003) only uses MBR.

I assume the future version of WHS (based on Windows 7 or Server 2008) will be able to use GPT for its partition tables.