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[Solved] Does Windows 7 have a limit of space able to use in a raid?

Forum Storage : NAS/RAID [Solved] Does Windows 7 have a limit of space able to use in a raid?

Hello,

My company has built a computer in the past using 8 hhd in a raid 0 and even though the hdd added up to 4tb the computer could only use 2tb due to a limit this computer was on windows XP

i am now building a computer for them also in raid 0 but they have brought windows 7 for it and hhds adding up to 6tb.

could you tell me whether it is the operating system that limits the amount of space you can have in a raid 0 or whether it is something else?

Reply to jfs123

Yes, if I am not mistaken, the boot partition cannot be bigger than 2TB even in Windows7.

Reply to Emerald

Best answer

You need to set your partitions to GPT vs MRB to exceed the 2TB limit...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi [...] 63525.aspx

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Ok thank you very much

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