NTFS partition limits

[fitfixer]

I am building a Dell 2950 network storage box with 5 X 750GB sata drives in a RAID 5 configuration, but using Server 2003 instead of storage server, ideally I want a 50GB system partition C: and the rest of the RAID volume [2.7 TB]as one big partition, I have set up raid 5 and created a virtual disk using all 5 drives and installed S2003 R2 standard edition, but it seems that the biggest partition I can create is 1.99TB, is there a maximum partition size in S2003?
I am using NTFS

FrankF
A+,Network+,MCSA

 

[RichardHuang]

Yes, I don't have document here but I remembered 2TB is the maximum size you can create. It's the limitation of 32bit system. You need to use 64bit system to create a single volume larger than that.

 

[xmsre]

2TB is for a basic disk. You could use dynamic disks as well. See "What is the maximum NTFS volume size supported on a GPT disk?" in

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302873/en-us

 

[RichardHuang]

Oh yes, thanks xmsre, found more info here:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx

After win2k3 sp1 with other 64bit platforms, Windows support GPT.

 

[xmsre]

For clusters, you're limited to 2TG GPT disks unless you apply

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919117/.

In this post, it's 2003 R2 standard, so clustering doesn't apply and GPT is supported.

 

[fitfixer]

The hotfix applies to enterprise, datacentre or 64-bit editions of Server 2003, I think my options are either install the X64 version or make 2 virtual disks


FrankF
A+,Network+,MCSA