Hard Drive Configuration with RAID 10 requires a maximum total Hard Drive capacity of 3600GB???

[David Sparks]

Zach White wrote:
> David Sparks wrote:
>> I have 2 2950 servers with 4 1TB drives using the SAS/6i controller.  I want
>> to install a PERC6 addon PCIe and connect it to the 4 drives.  The online
>> "Build Your System" suggests that there will be a problem doing this so I'm a
>> bit worried.  Anyone on this list running a 2950 with 4 1TB SAS drives?
>>
> We have a 2950 and a 2970 which have 6 1TB drives each. I've set them up
> with all 6 drives in RAID5 and with 4 drives RAID1 and 2 drives RAID0.
> They seemed to work fine in all these
> configurations.
> 
> I don't know about Dell's cart, or why they'd have that limit, but from
> a technical standpoint it seems to work.

Thanks, I finally got through to Dell who claim that the 3600GB limit is a
Windows Server limitation.  Based on these responses I'm going ahead and
ordering the PERC6 addon cards.

ds