So what happens if one has 2 or more really big dicks in an array? I'm thinking that several of the 1.5TB drives could free up some space, but is it possible to exceed 2TB on the old OS such as XP? Is a special controller or filesystem needed?
Large Array?
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ddrueding
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The OS is the limiting factor. You cannot have an NTFS partiton greater than 2TB in XP. Server 2003 and Vista both support GPT disks, which can get much larger (my main array is ~10TB now, with a single drive letter).
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Fatwah on Western Digital
udaman
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Freudian slip, or you could have an orgy
Grrr! I hate computers.
Me too, but they do provide some utility...unlike some can't be fired, overpaid, to be annoying, nasty, indifferent, 'really big dicks' DMV managers, lol.
ah crap, Merc beat me to the punch line...Maybe Palin might be interested.
jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
Anyone remember this thread on SR? :mrgrn:
ddrueding
Fixture
Yup!
I am so afraid to ask how you know that.
So I will need to upgrade the OS by ~2010 when hard drives exceed 2TB in capacity? That is really a bummer.
ddrueding
Fixture
Going to Server 2003 is really painless. You'll want 64-bit anyway to support more memory, and Server 2003 x64 is basically XP with support for larger dicks and more RAM
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Going to Server 2003 is really painless.
Is MS providing free upgrades for licensed XP users?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Volume license keys make everything painless.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
It's not painless because Server 2003 costs quite a bit. :rambo:
ddrueding
Fixture
That is what Action Packs are for.
Going to Server 2003 is really painless. You'll want 64-bit anyway to support more memory, and Server 2003 x64 is basically XP with support for larger dicks and more RAM
Even if the OS were free I'm certain such a change would be quite painful for other reasons.
ddrueding
Fixture
Reinstalling all your apps would be a pain, but the interface is identical to XP. Really, you can't tell by looking at the desktop or using applications.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Going to Server 2003 is really painless. You'll want 64-bit anyway to support more memory, and Server 2003 x64 is basically XP with support for larger dicks and more RAM
Does XP x64 not support GPT? It's exactly like Server 2k3, only it's actually XP.
ddrueding
Fixture
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
I just checked (I run XP x64) and I could change the disk type to GPT Disk in Disk Management.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
With the possible exception of the dicks in the array problem.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I think that depends entirely on how open minded you are.
ddrueding
Fixture
...and how much redundancy you support.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm sitting here looking at 12 1TB hard disk drives and wondering if it's worth buggering around with all of them just to make a screen shot of one big array, before I set them up properly.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
And the answer to the question "is it worth buggering with?" is No, simply because I can't get a Promise RAID card to work in a system with a 3ware RAID card and therefore don't have enough SATA ports to do anything all that impressive.
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ddrueding
Fixture
You should have kept my 16-port 3Ware card