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Title: 3TB drives
Post by: jameswilson on May 08, 2012, 05:29:04 PM

Ive had 3 hard drives fail at the same time (i think as my sme wont boot) but its headless so i havnt checked yet but i can hear a few of them clicking.

Im going to replace it with new hardware and want to have a 6 disk array using 3 tb drives.

I remeber reading that using above 2tb can be an issue and dont want to buy these drives and run them at 2tb.

Anyone know or tested please?

Title: Re: 3TB drives
Post by: CharlieBrady on May 08, 2012, 10:12:57 PM

Not me. My server has a RAID1 pair of 40GB drives. :-)

Title: Re: 3TB drives
Post by: fpausp on May 09, 2012, 05:57:18 AM

I would use 2TB drives, I made a virtual Storage with 5x2TB drives:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,48592.0.html (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,48592.0.html)

Every time I tried to use a hdd bigger than 2TB I got an error (GTO ...)

Title: Re: 3TB drives
Post by: janet on May 09, 2012, 10:06:40 AM

jameswilson

I'm sure this was discussed in the forums or bugzilla or mail lists not so long ago, so search more.
Try this for info
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
There are many more results on google

Title: Re: 3TB drives
Post by: jameswilson on May 09, 2012, 10:10:05 AM

Ok thankyou all