Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Running x2 Seagate SATA III 2TB HDD In RAID 0?

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Trying to run two of the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB HDD's in RAID 0 on the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 SATA III ports.
I am able to create the the virtual disk via the bios. However during the windows 7 x64 installation i can create a 200GB partition for the OS, but when i do the unallocated space splits in two (one 1.8tb and other 1.6tb) i can create a partition on one of those unallocated spaces, but not on the other; i get an error code.

Without going into to much detail is it possible to run those two sata III hdd's in Raid 0 and install windows on it?
 
can not answer the question but I am thinking of buying this board....is it a good performer..or have you not got that far yet?
 
In essence no, to create a hard drive that is greater than 2tb requires the drive to be formatted using GPT rather than MBR, and I believe you cannot install windows OS (even windows 7) on a GPT drive, only a MBR drive however i'm not 100% on this.

You could install windows on another drive then have those drives as storage as windows will let you access them, just not as a system drive. This is the set up I currently have with two raptors in raid 0 for a system drive and two 1.5tb for storage.

I also have just got the UD7 last week and its and absolutely great MB, not really pushed it yet but has a massive amount of settings to tweak.

Hope that helped and Merry Christmas :-)
 
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