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Title: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?
Post by: fpausp on November 28, 2013, 12:33:50 PM

I like to build a Storage (Raid 5) with sme8 32bit, is it possible to use 3 x 4TB Disks ?

Title: Re: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?
Post by: Stefano on November 28, 2013, 01:16:12 PM

AFAIK/AFAIR SME doesn't support GPT partition.. so, IMHO, you likely can't do it

Title: Re: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?
Post by: fpausp on November 28, 2013, 02:19:48 PM

OK..., Is it possible with sme9 ?

Title: Re: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?
Post by: janet on November 29, 2013, 12:35:59 AM

fpausp

You need to use a hardware RAID card with support for 4 drives, or a RAID card built in to the motherboard. Be careful to choose a card supported by CentOS 5.x

Alternatively use 5 x 2TB Disks (in software RAID) on sme 8.

Not sure if sme 9/CentOS 6 supports >2TB/GPT, but you can easily download the sme9 beta 2 iso & try it out. Do some research on CentOS 6.x first.

Title: Re: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?
Post by: stephdl on November 29, 2013, 10:05:52 PM

the problem is due to the fdisk version to shape partitions, if you refer to the topic below you can find some answers as detailed.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,50311.0/all.html

It seems if you use another os to make partitions and a raid hardware card to manage HD, you can have Hard Drives more than 2GB on SME8.

Title: Re: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?
Post by: fpausp on November 30, 2013, 11:54:50 AM

Ok, thank you very much for your help...