Does a 3TB drive duplicate ok?

Peter

I will add a 3TB drive to my whs 2011 with Drivepool.
As I understand, WHS will format this as 2TB +1 TB.
Does Drivepool correctly understand that it should not duplicate files just between those too, eg, undertand that are really one physical drive?
Thanks  alot!
Peter.

OtisPresley

Hi Peter, DrivePool will understand that that is one physical drive and will not duplicate between the two partitions.  If you have a storage controller that supports SATA 3, then you can add a drive above 2 TB with a single partition.  I am using an LSI controller that supports it and have a 3 TB drive with a single partition in my pool (shown in the attached image).

Technogod

You can have SATA II or SATA III drives and still be able to create a single GPT partition on a 3TB drive using Disk Management. This is a function of the OS. The OS must support GPT partitions. If you want to boot from a 3TB GPT partition that's a different story. You must have UEFI BIOS.

Peter

Ah, thats great, thx!
I do have an UEFI Bios, van I also format the 3TB drive as one partition with GPT and use it as my OS drive?
With 60Gb for the OS drive and the rest as one 2.7TB drive?