Raid 5 Volume size Incorrect?

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I have a Dell MD1000 hooked up via a Perc 5/e to a Dell PE 1850. There are 4 1TB drives configured in a raid 5 array, and in bios shows 2.7TB of space. When i goto the server running Server 2003 R2, i see 2.7GB of space, however 700GB of it is not partitionable and i have no options. Any ideas? Did i configure something incorrectly?

thanks,

-bill
 
2 TB limit for MBR. You need GPT (giant partition tables) to touch anything above 2TB) You can convert within disk management but the drive has to be *empty* for it to happen. Oh, and unless its EFI motherboard (the new fun color and GUI BIOS) you can't boot from it.
 
no need to boot from it. it's purely for holding files. it worked, thanks for the help.
 
GPT actually stands for "GUID Partition Tables", but I suppose "Giant" is a good way to remember the difference. :D
 
Is there any advantage to initially formatting discs as GPT instead of MBR if using individual discs smaller than 2TB?
 
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