Raid-5 Partition size

[walterblackberry]

Hi,
I will be building a Raid-5 environment with 3x 300 GB SATA HDs (Hardware-Raid with LSI MegaRaid Card).
I would like to create one 600 GB Partition.
Is this a problem (performance, ect.) or should I break down the size with a few partitions?

I will be running Windows XP Pro SP2.

Thanks for your input!

 

[RichPLS]

Diskeeper currently only supports volumes up to 512 GB in size, so to use this defragmenter your array should not exceed this size.

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[walterblackberry]

Thanks for your reply!

Ok... Will defragmenters even work on a raid environment?

I would guess, using a defragmenter on a >300 GB HD would
take 24 hours or so?

Do you see any other limitations using a large partition?
Will many files (= large FAT-Table) slow the system down alot?

 

[RichPLS]

Yes, Diskeeper works on raid arrays up to 512 GB in size, and I have been told that their next release will expand this limitation.


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