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ahhh okay.. &nbsp;About to try..
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Why don't you want them larger than 2TB? With Win 2008 and GPT we're well past the 2TB boundary except for boot disks.
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Why don't you want them larger than 2TB? With Win 2008 and GPT we're well past the 2TB boundary except for boot disks.

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Although I didn't answer your question common courtesy dictates that you should still answer mine. I appreciate you may be busy installing at the moment but there's a not too rare mistake that can be made by not making the second virtual disk GPT under Windows and then expanding some time in the future.
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Although I didn't answer your question common courtesy dictates that you should still answer mine. I appreciate you may be busy installing at the moment but there's a not too rare mistake that can be made by not making the second virtual disk GPT under Windows and then expanding some time in the future.

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Can the Dell Perc 6i allow me to create one large array and chop it up into VD's? &nbsp;My goal is to create one large RAID 6 array and chop it up into VD's.. My goal is to present two different drives to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 that are no larger than 2 TB's.
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Can the Dell Perc 6i allow me to create one large array and chop it up into VD's?  My goal is to create one large RAID 6 array and chop it up into VD's.. My goal is to present two different drives to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 that are no larger than 2 TB's.

how to create VD within a VD on Dell Perc 6i

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