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Argh, more than 2TB disk causes problems?

Here’s the tech scenario: I now have seven active Seagate Barracuda SATA2 500GB drives in a RAID5 array, using a Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 card. This setup gives a total capacity of 3TB and can survive one drive completely dying.
Under Windows, drives are formatted with a Master Boot Record partition map. This format imposes a 2TB [...]

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2008 07 21 Jake Billo me
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Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 first impressions

In an effort towards achieving additional data security and fault tolerance, I recently purchased a Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 PCI Express card for my media server. The card supports up to 8 Serial ATA drives in various RAID levels. It’s an x4 card electrically, but fits into a PCI Express x4, x8 or x16 slot.
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2008 05 31 Jake Billo tech Comments (11)