Rocketraid 1820

Nutbusta

Nutbusta

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Has anyone had any luck building an array with this over 2tb?

I have one with 1 samsung 1tb disks and although disk manager can see the full 2.8tb array it can only partition and format the first 2tb.

Apparently using gpt format will resolve the issue but you can't boot from these partitions.

I'm currently using vista 64

Any suggestions welcome
 
You're out of luck if you still want to boot from it. Best i can suggest is use your RAID manager to set up a separate boot volume of 20GB or so for your OS, and use the rest of your space on a GPT volume.
 
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So if I go into the raid bios I should be able to create two raid 5 sets, say one of 800gb and the other being nearly 2tb?

That wouldn't be so bad
 
Nutbusta said:
So if I go into the raid bios I should be able to create two raid 5 sets, say one of 800gb and the other being nearly 2tb?
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The card won't let you do that. It will only create arrays with whole drives, it can't make arrays from sections of drives like the Intel Matrix RAID controllers.

The short answer is you can't boot off your array, you'll need another drive.
 
So I guess the only solution I'm left with (since I want a high performance machine) is to get the Samsung 64GB SSD and use it as a boot drive, with the arrey formatted GPT.

Oh, dang. I Really didn't want to have to do that :D

That work ok?
 
So are there any recommendations about best price/performance ratio, given that I've just forked out quite a lot on HD's? I think I'd linke to keep it under £150-200 but capacity isn't really an issue given the old tech drives.

Actually given that my desktop/laptop & MCE have all died within a week my credit cards are actually creaking under the strain
 
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