Create NTFS RAID volume larger than 2TB
I'm installing a Dell PowerEdge R730 Server with 6 units of 2TB SAS drives on PERC H730 Mini controller. I created RAID-1 with 2 drives and installed Win2016 successfully on it. On the remaining 4 drives I created a RAID-5 virtual disk which came to about 6TB. When I boot to windows and go to Disk Management, I see the 6TB RAID-5 volume split into 2 volumes of 2TB and 4TB respectively. The 2TB can be allocated but the 4TB is grayed out and can't be allocated. The boot is set to UEFI. I need to access the 6TB virual drive as a whole volume with NTFS, kindly advise
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masnrock
What Brian said. I learned that the hard way with a 2012 server.
slight correction, MBR disks are limited to 2TB, NTFS is not limited to disk sizes you will encounter (8 zetabytes)
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Oops, thanks David! Corrected my post.
Please Note the use of RAID-5 is now deprecated with disk over 750GB due to the risk of a second disk failing whilst the first is rebuilding has now become unacceptably high - Please user RAID-6 or RAID10
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It practically worked