RAID 0 WITH 2 2TB HARD DRIVES POSSIBLE?

[big_tuna]

I just finished building a new system with an Intel I5-2500 k cpu on a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B3 board. I put 2 seagate 2tb low power drives with 64mb cache 5900 rpms and was wanting to try raid-0. Is it possible to do this or not. Im having trouble and wanted to know if someone can walk me through it. I set it up and it recognized the drives as 1 but when I tried to install windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit it wouldn't let me. please help. thanks

 

[charon711]

did you download the raid drivers?

 

[tritonofg]

I just finished building a new system with an Intel I5-2500 k cpu on a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B3 board. I put 2 seagate 2tb low power drives with 64mb cache 5900 rpms and was wanting to try raid-0. Is it possible to do this or not. Im having trouble and wanted to know if someone can walk me through it. I set it up and it recognized the drives as 1 but when I tried to install windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit it wouldn't let me. please help. thanks

There is a 2TB limit for boot disks in windows...look up GPT

 

[cjl]

There is a 2TB limit for boot disks in windows...look up GPT

You should be able to boot a GPT if you have EFI - that will get around the 2TB limit.

 

[big_tuna]

Thanks for the responses. the motherboard has Dualbios 3tb+ support (hybrid EFI technology) listed on the box. I just cant figure out how to use it, it's been awhile since I have set 1 up with raid. I had it configured in bios and it show it as 1 big hard drive and when I tried to install windows it gave me an error message with a number (sorry cant remember it). I will try again in a few days when I have some free time, if I cant set it up as boot drive I will use the 64gb SSD drive I have as boot drive then use the raid as storage. Thanks again for the help.

 

[big_tuna]

Thanks for the help, I gave up and installed the 64gb SSD with my operating system and then the raid is being used for storage.

 

[Rusting In Peace]

I'm sure you have, but you've switched to using raid 1 now that you've made those 2TB drives storage right? Running storage as raid 0 would be a very curious thing to do.

 

[big_tuna]

I still have it in raid 0 for the extra boost in speed. I have an HP mediasmart server that I back everything up on so I dont worry about 1 of the drives failing.

 

[groberts101]

yep,.. R0 is nice for the speed boosts. HDD is so cheap now I just use another R0 to backup my R0. lol