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I recently purchased 4 2TB Seagate drives for use in a 6TB RAID-5 array. I am running Windows XP 32-bit, which can only recognise drives up to 2TB in size using the default sector size of 512 bytes, so I intended to create the array and specify its logical sector size as 4KB which would allow expansion to 16TB in theory.
Unfortunately I can't find an option to specify this in the Intel RAID BIOS or the RST management console. After I create the array I can expand the "Advanced" option and see that the settings "Physical sector size" and "Logical sector size" are both set to 512 bytes, but I need a way to set "Logical sector size" to 4KB during array creation. Is there a way to do this?
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XP 32 bit dose not support GPT it only supports MBR.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/gpt_faq.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/gpt_faq.mspx
The "Physical sector size" and "Logical sector size" have nothing to do with limiting the array size to 2TB.
Note: Intel only supports an a array size past 2TB if it is a data only array which is to say you can't have a OS on it.
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