Topic: sme8 Storage - maximum HDD Capacity ?

[fpausp]

I like to build a Storage (Raid 5) with sme8 32bit, is it possible to use 3 x 4TB Disks ?

[Stefano]

AFAIK/AFAIR SME doesn't support GPT partition.. so, IMHO, you likely can't do it

[fpausp]

OK..., Is it possible with sme9 ?

[janet]

fpausp

You need to use a hardware RAID card with support for 4 drives, or a RAID card built in to the motherboard. Be careful to choose a card supported by CentOS 5.x

Alternatively use 5 x 2TB Disks (in software RAID) on sme 8.

Not sure if sme 9/CentOS 6 supports >2TB/GPT, but you can easily download the sme9 beta 2 iso & try it out. Do some research on CentOS 6.x first.

[stephdl]

the problem is due to the fdisk version to shape partitions, if you refer to the topic below you can find some answers as detailed.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,50311.0/all.html

It seems if you use another os to make partitions and a raid hardware card to manage HD, you can have Hard Drives more than 2GB on SME8.

[fpausp]

Ok, thank you very much for your help...