I just built a new rig and upon deciding which hard drives I was going to go with (I used raid-0 on my Athlon FX and plan to do it again for this built) I came across a question I couldn't find the answer to. Now this isn't really a big deal YET but the way storage is going it may be soon.
I am sure most of you guys realize that now we have a barrier issue with the standard bios setup that won't allow for more than a 2tb drive to be recognized. From what I read this is exclusive to PCs and Macs are built to exceed this. My question is can you run two 2tb drives in raid-0 (or 2 1.5tbs for a total of 3tb) to get a total of 4tb? I'm curious since the raid controller is usually, if not always, seperate from the bios instructions. I bet within a matter of 5 years we will exceed the need for 2tb on most moderate to high end rigs as more HD media and gaming becomes standard.
Anyone try this just for the heck of it? I'd be curious to hear what would happen.
I am sure most of you guys realize that now we have a barrier issue with the standard bios setup that won't allow for more than a 2tb drive to be recognized. From what I read this is exclusive to PCs and Macs are built to exceed this. My question is can you run two 2tb drives in raid-0 (or 2 1.5tbs for a total of 3tb) to get a total of 4tb? I'm curious since the raid controller is usually, if not always, seperate from the bios instructions. I bet within a matter of 5 years we will exceed the need for 2tb on most moderate to high end rigs as more HD media and gaming becomes standard.
Anyone try this just for the heck of it? I'd be curious to hear what would happen.
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