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Does a 3TB drive duplicate ok?

PeterPeter
edited July 2012 in DrivePool
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.
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  • OtisPresleyOtisPresley
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    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).

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  • TechnogodTechnogod
    edited July 2012 Member
    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.
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  • PeterPeter
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    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?
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