Installing 3.92 Tera Bytes of Storage .

[Guest]

Hi,

I just built a system using Win XP Pro that can house's up to 16 drives. I
installed 16/ 500gig drives and created a RAID 10 which gave me an arry of
3.69 Tera bytes. When i went in to Disk Managment, I was only able to see
2048 gig of storage. What happened to the other 1.5 tera bytes of space? I
installed XP with SP2. Do i need to down load an update to see the remainder
of the RAID? Thanks in advances for you help.

 

[JS]

What is your Raid controller make/model, if built into the motherboard then
who's motherboard (make/model)?

JS

 

[Guest]

RAID Card is a 3Ware 9650SE Controller Card in a Tyan mother board..

 

[JS]

Have you tried 3Ware's Tech support.

JS

RAID Card is a 3Ware 9650SE Controller Card in a Tyan mother board..

 

[David Vair]

This table shows the size limitations:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27253&DisplayTab=Article

 

[Bill Blanton]

Hi,

I just built a system using Win XP Pro that can house's up to 16 drives. I
installed 16/ 500gig drives and created a RAID 10 which gave me an arry of
3.69 Tera bytes. When i went in to Disk Managment, I was only able to see
2048 gig of storage. What happened to the other 1.5 tera bytes of space? I
installed XP with SP2. Do i need to down load an update to see the remainder
of the RAID? Thanks in advances for you help.

Large Logical Unit Support and Windows Server 2003 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/LUN_SP1.mspx
<quote>
In past editions, Windows used 32-bit block numbers in the lower storage stack.
This effectively limited support for single disk devices-which might be hardware
RAID sets, sometimes called virtual disks or LUNs-to being no larger than 2
terabytes (TB). To get storage unit sizes beyond 2 TB, one had to combine
multiple LUNs using the Volume Manager, leading to a volume limit of 64 TB with
RAID0 or spanning or 62 TB with RAID5. RAID1 was also limited to 2 TB. The use
of Volume Manager sets, however, imposes a performance penalty and can make some
storage management scenarios difficult or impossible.
</quote>

Note that "past editions" includes XP.