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March 13th, 2019 15:00
Accessing a volume larger than 2TB in Server 2019
PowerEdge T310 Installed all new drives. OS is booting to matching SSD drives, no issue there. The issue Is with the two storage drives that are configured as a mirrored volume with 2 10TB drives. Windows is limiting this set to 2 TB even though they are set to GPT. Is there a setting for UEFI to allow windows to access the full Drive space
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theflash1932
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March 13th, 2019 15:00
Do you have the drives connected to a PERC 6/i RAID controller? Maximum physical disk is 2TB. Same with the SAS 6/iR.
only1coop
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March 13th, 2019 16:00
Thanks Flash. You are correct, after reading I came to the same conclusion that it is in fact a size limitation on the part of the sas 6i/r card. Thanks. Any chance of upgrading the controller to access the larger drives? No firmware available that I see to change that now.
theflash1932
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March 13th, 2019 20:00
Nope, limitation of the hardware/technology.
However, delete the VD's associated with those drives - leave them unconfigured and they should passthrough to the OS. HOWEVER, since 10TB is WAY past the SAS 6's design, there is a good chance your are using drives that won't play nice with the controller even when unconfigured. What make/model are they?