Maximum RAID 0 Hard Drive Size

[akers]

I have read that some RAID controllers limit hard drive size to 120Mb each. I have looked everywhere I can think of and cannot find anything that tells me what controllers have what size limits.

I am going to build an Intel system based on either the 875 or 865 chipsets and I want to use two 160GB (320GB total) hard drives in RAID 0.

Anybody out there have any ideas?

 

[xSauronx]

not really....find the raid controller chip and google for the specs

 

[KenGr]

The RAID shouldn't impose a limitation if it's recent at all. I think the limitation you are thinking of is a 127GB limit that came from some motherboard BIOS. Again, recent ones should not be a problem.

 

[carpenter]

I'm running 2 100GB drives as raid0, so I don't know about the limit you are talking about. I've not heard of a limit on the size as long as you are using current hardware. Have you considered using smaller hds on the raid and additional hds as slave storage areas?

 

I have 2 100 gigs on my ga-7vrxp and its running fine

 

[akers]

Thanks for the info. The article I was reading talked about some RAID controllers not being 48 bit so any single hard drive larger than 120 (240 total in RAID 0) would still show as a 120.

I am building a 875 chipset, 3.0 HT P-IV, with 2X160 (320GB total) RAID 0 for editing digital video.

 

[carpenter]

Hi KenGr, are you up for some questions?

 

[KenGr]

Originally posted by: carpenter
Hi KenGr, are you up for some questions?

Uh, yeah, but am I gonna get blindsided?