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Help with RAID - Did I do it right?

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That sucks man! :(

no it's 2x 4TB drives, but they show up as 2x <2 TB drives in disk management. That doesn't seem right to me?

 

no it doenst 

 

you could try setting up raid through intels RST software

 

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-dc-s3500-raid-performance,3613-3.html

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Hello,

 

so I set up a RAID 1 array on the intel controller of my mobo with 2 WD RED 4TB. After getting windows 7 to boot normally again (AHCI vs RAID driver issue), I can see 2 disks in disk management, both of 1677.9GB. 

 

Did I do it right? Shouldn't I be seeing 1 drive of +-4TB instead?

 

https://gyazo.com/35b85fdea955d34e35c4fd9ea3448788

 

Also, I have a dualboot situation going on with win7/win10. Will I be able to get into the array on win 10?

 

Greetings,

 

Stef

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Hello,

 

 

How does it appear under "computer" on your PC?

 

and you are sure you selected raid 0? (dont know why you want to RAID 0 two reds?)

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How does it appear under "computer" on your PC?

 

and you are sure you selected raid 0? (dont know why you want to RAID 0 two reds?)

 

They don't show up there, yet, since for now they are unallocated disks.

I put them in RAID 1.

 

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They don't show up there, yet, since for now they are unallocated disks.

I put them in RAID 1.

 

 

If they are in RAID 1, then you will only see a single 2TB drive

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If they are in RAID 1, then you will only see a single 2TB drive

 

You probably mean a 4TB drive, since it's 2 WD RED 4TB. 

That's the thing, there are 2 2TB drives in disk management (like shown in the screenshot I linked), not 1 4TB drive...

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In order for windows to use hard drives larger than 2 terabytes the drive must be setup as a GPT disk

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You probably mean a 4TB drive, since it's 2 WD RED 4TB. 

That's the thing, there are 2 2TB drives in disk management (like shown in the screenshot I linked), not 1 4TB drive...

 

No, RAID 1 is mirrored, meaning 2TB mirrored on another 2TB drive - you only get 2TB of storage

 

 

RAID 0 =  4 TB

RAID 1 = 2TB 

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uh... they are 4TB drives..... are you sure you have had enough sleep? :-)

 

 

Oh :D I thought they were 2TB drives, I didnt get enough sleep and I am stuck here at work ><

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That sucks man! :(

no it's 2x 4TB drives, but they show up as 2x <2 TB drives in disk management. That doesn't seem right to me?

 

no it doenst 

 

you could try setting up raid through intels RST software

 

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-dc-s3500-raid-performance,3613-3.html

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