[dnandoo]

Hi,

I'm creating a storage server with Server 2008 Std. and it has 8 physical drives that are 1 TB each.

I would like to have a C: drive partition that is 30GB and the remaining drives as another partition.

What would be the best RAID configuration to apply?



I put this under this section because 2008 server I believe has limitations on the partition size.



Thanks in advanced

[Curlyben]

Are you going to be running 32 or 64 Bit version, as it makes a difference ?

With 32 bit there is a maximum depending on sector size.
2TB is a limit imposed by the MBR partition table, assuming the disk uses 512 sectors. If the sector size is increased to 4K, the limit becomes 16TB.

Anyway for a server, RAID 5 for redundancy.

Will give you about 6 Tb total storage.

[dnandoo]

I was going to use 32 bit version.
How can I increase the sector size?

[Curlyben]

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