ICH8R 3TB Raid5

[gaspah]

Just about to buy

4 x 1TB WD RE2 GP hdds.. with the intention of running a 3TB Raid5 volume.. (yes the 5400rpm ones)

now last time i foolishly rushed in and bought 6xWD4000YS and then found i had to buy a new raid card (which was good cas i could add another 2 400GB drives after) you see i figured my board has 6 intel sata ports and 2 gigabyte sata ports surely it can support a 6-disk array.. wrong... i now know it supports only 4-disk arrays... but does it support 3TB volumes?

cheers in advance.

whoop whoop

The terabytes just keep stacking up.. it's crazy this is a DESKTOP computer and it's about to rock over 6TB of storage (inc OS drives)... when will it stop??

sorry for the double thread but i couldnt figure out how to change the title..

 

[xenotype]

You'll need to patch your OS to get it to see >2 TB partitions, if its Vista/Xp

 

[gaspah]

You'll need to patch your OS to get it to see >2 TB partitions, if its Vista/Xp

as long as it's x64 that's all i need. i VERY rarely boot into XP.. and besides i dont really need my data when in XP, i only use it for a couple legacy games that are already installed...

thanks

i was only worried about the limitations of the ich8r southbridge.. as if you notice i've already got a +2TB array/volume on my system