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Server 2012 Drive partitioning

Hello all,

I know in server 2008 R2 SP1 that i can have 4TB Volumes and break them down into 2TB Partitions. My question is in Server 2012 Standard does it have to be done this way as well, or can i create one huge 14TB Partition and it'll work?

this will be a raid 5 or 10 with one drive as a hot swappable/removeable, the OS will be 100GB and the rest i want as a single data drive. This is going to be my new backup server, and i really don't want to have to mess around with a ton of configuration if i don't have to.

Also does it play well in a server enviroment of mixed OS's? 2003 standard and 2008 R2

Thanks

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1st thank you all for responding with helpfull answers, it is appreciated

with all of the information here i now know what direction i am going to go with my config of the server.

since all of you helped with my answer i will be splitting the points between you, i have chosen amitkulshrestha as the best one simply because his link provided the best explaination to what i was asking.

Thank you again for your input, it was very helpfull