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Do you know if the onboard B120i controller is EFI capable? I was going to use a spare 3TB drive as the boot disk but I'm being limited to 2TB of space :( The option to convert to a GPT disk type is not available.
 
I just put in a 4TB WD green drive, set it to raid 0 in the controller configuration and booted. The I initialised the disk and set GPT and I can see the entire 4TB(well 3.6TB..) fine.
 
Strange.. not sure how others have it working, I'm only getting 2TB of useable space..

UPDATE:

Well, no matter what I try I can't get the useable space above 2TB to work, That's disappointing :(

Time to re-think my plans.
 
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I was planning on using a 3TB Seagate Barracuda as the boot drive (I need space more than performance hence no SSD), but I'll have to use a spare 2tb WD Caviar Black instead.
 
Why do you need so much space as a boot drive?

It's best to keep the boot sector (partition or drive) as clean as possible to ensure best operation.

... I wasn't aware of this limitation myself, is it just with these Gen8s? Is it hardware or is it some software limitation I've missed?
 
crinkleshoes said:
Why do you need so much space as a boot drive?

It's best to keep the boot sector (partition or drive) as clean as possible to ensure best operation.

... I wasn't aware of this limitation myself, is it just with these Gen8s? Is it hardware or is it some software limitation I've missed?
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I'm splitting the boot drive into a single 100gb partition for system files and the rest as storage, I don't need the 3TB as a single system volume. I've already got 3x3tb drives in the other bays. I've got another 1tb 2.5" drive for the Optical bay (once my cables arrive).

I installed the Caviar last night and that's working fine but it's a lot noisier than the barracuda (and obviously I've lost 1TB of space).
 
Si. said:
I'm splitting the boot drive into a single 100gb partition for system files and the rest as storage, I don't need the 3TB as a single system volume. I've already got 3x3tb drives in the other bays. I've got another 1tb 2.5" drive for the Optical bay (once my cables arrive).

I installed the Caviar last night and that's working fine but it's a lot noisier than the barracuda (and obviously I've lost 1TB of space).
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Why not put the OS on the 1TB drive then and that way you can configure all 4x 3TB drives in a redundant raid5 array.
 
visibleman said:
Does anyone know if the cashback offer will return for the Gen8's? Missed it last time around and could do with grabbing one at some point.
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Only HP will know that.

crinkleshoes said:
Why not put the OS on the 1TB drive then and that way you can configure all 4x 3TB drives in a redundant raid5 array.
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Instead of RAID 5 on disks that big, go RAID 10. RAID 5 on big drives is asking for trouble.
 
Depends on what you're storing... anything I desperately want to keep for a long time is backed up to Google Drive as well as on a raid-5 array.

For average home / media storage... raid 10 is a waste of a hard drive in a 4-drive array... you're very unlikely to have a second drive fail in the time it takes to replace the first drive.

... currently running 6 unique 4-drive raid-5 arrays and have been doing for years without troubl... one with 4x1TB, 2x4x3TB, 2x4x4TB and 1x4x6TB

As long as your hardware/software raid provider is stable and easy to come by... raid-10 is only really worthwhile for business use.

I don't like raid 10 either as it's 2x raid-0 arrays for failure, which is a more significant corruption than a raid 5 array.

Going 6 disks or higher? Raid 6...
 
All it takes is one unreadable sector in a rebuild and you lose the array. RAID 5 works disks a LOT harder than 10 so the likelihood is that much higher a rebuild will fail.
 
I've been running software RAID-5 for a few year snow.. lost 2 drives in that time but always recovered Ok.

I agree that Raid 5 makes drives work hard during the rebuild process, but once it's healthy all should be fine. I agree that Raid 10 is overkill for a home setup it's just too much space to loose on a small home setup.

Like crinkleshoes above, anything I MUST NOT LOOSE goes up to the cloud for additional backup (M$ Onedrive in my case)
 
any good silent GPU's i should use with HDMI out for connection to my LED tv in the lounge, i want to connect to directly tot the router and not through homeplugs, which is working well however.
 
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