Max harddisk support

Dear all,

I use 5x1TB harddisk to build raid 5, assume I can have 4TB disk space to
use. I install window 2003 standard edition to this server, install
completed and I checked only 2TB disk space can be allocate under
management. Remain around 2TB disk space cannot be allocate, is any
limitation to the file system that only support up to one 2TB partition in
one OS? How can retrive this 2TB remian disk space to use? Thank you.

Best Regards,
Tony

 

Hello Tony,

Check this one:


See:
Note: Disk devices with more than 2 TB of disk space must be converted to
GPT format for all of the disk space to be usable. If the device uses MBR
format, the disk space beyond 2 TB will be unusable.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Dear all,
>
> I use 5x1TB harddisk to build raid 5, assume I can have 4TB disk space
> to use. I install window 2003 standard edition to this server, install
> completed and I checked only 2TB disk space can be allocate under
> management. Remain around 2TB disk space cannot be allocate, is any
> limitation to the file system that only support up to one 2TB
> partition in one OS? How can retrive this 2TB remian disk space to
> use? Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Tony<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Dear Meinolf Weber,

Thanks for your reply, I will try to use GPT to resolve this issue.

Regards,
Tony


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> Hello Tony,
>
> Check this one:
>
>
> See:
> Note: Disk devices with more than 2 TB of disk space must be converted to
> GPT format for all of the disk space to be usable. If the device uses MBR
> format, the disk space beyond 2 TB will be unusable.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!!
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I use 5x1TB harddisk to build raid 5, assume I can have 4TB disk space
>> to use. I install window 2003 standard edition to this server, install
>> completed and I checked only 2TB disk space can be allocate under
>> management. Remain around 2TB disk space cannot be allocate, is any
>> limitation to the file system that only support up to one 2TB
>> partition in one OS? How can retrive this 2TB remian disk space to
>> use? Thank you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Tony<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

I have 10TB Fibre SAN for database purposes and a requirement to Cluster 2
DL360G5's into it. This means Dynamic disks are a no-go.
Is the GPT format supportable on the MS Clustering service so as to see the
10TB as a single "disk"?
Regards
Alan

"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" wrote:
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> Hello Tony,
>
> Check this one:
>
>
> See:
> Note: Disk devices with more than 2 TB of disk space must be converted to
> GPT format for all of the disk space to be usable. If the device uses MBR
> format, the disk space beyond 2 TB will be unusable.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!!
>
> <!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I use 5x1TB harddisk to build raid 5, assume I can have 4TB disk space
> > to use. I install window 2003 standard edition to this server, install
> > completed and I checked only 2TB disk space can be allocate under
> > management. Remain around 2TB disk space cannot be allocate, is any
> > limitation to the file system that only support up to one 2TB
> > partition in one OS? How can retrive this 2TB remian disk space to
> > use? Thank you.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Tony<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
>
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->