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Dell Precision 690
I have a Dell Precision 690 and I'm thinking about turning it into a Synology NAS (using XPEnology.com). I'm limited to 2TB Drives, if I install a HBA Card, could I get around the 2TB limit?
Thanks, Kevin
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April 17th, 2015 06:00
awesome. Thanks for the help
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Yes. If you want more than 2 drives however you should get an HBA and port multiplier so that you can overcome that part.
http://www.addonics.com/products/ad5sapm.php
Rocket 620-OEM was released as part of a Western Digital hardware bundle 3TB
ROCKET 600
The Rocket 620 OEM was released as part of a Western Digital hardware bundle 3TB drive Retail Packaging . This OEM product includes a Western Digital User Manual, and is packaged in a small, non retail white box.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115072
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Beyond 2.2tb REQUIRES 64 BIT OS, INTEL RST 10.3.X or higher, AND GPT partitions via UEFI Bios.
INTEL RST Raid does not support larger than 2TB.
Drives are up to 6TB per drive so with a 5 port multiplier you could have a 30TB volume.
3rd party Controllers with extra software do allow larger drives
Bootable drives however need bios extensions, 64 bit os, and GPT MBR is not booting.
If your system uses an early Intel RST driver, your 3TB disk drive may appear to be 800GB.
Seagate DiscWizard software installs a device driver to achieve full capacity on Legacy BIOS systems.
Windows systems with legacy BIOS using DiscWizard will need two partitions on the boot drive to achieve full capacity.
Windows 7 and Vista native support for 3TB non-booting data drives is with GPT partitions, available on all systems.
Windows 7 and Vista native support for booting 3TB is on UEFI BIOS systems and using GPT partitions only.
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
http://www.datoptic.com/ec/6gb-dual-sata-port-host-support-pm-mac-windows-linux.html
The device is seen as a huge drive. All raid functions are handled by the device. FIVE SATA I, II, III hard drives, Optical drives
Supports ANY HDD size, including HDD greater than 2.0TB
HOWEVER. Many writes due to raid would cause SSD's to DIE within a few hours in some cases. SSD's are not designed to be written to OFTEN.
http://www.datoptic.com/ec/6gb-esata-to-five-sataiii-port-multiplier-panel-mount-able-es3pms3s.html