H97 RAID 5 Drive Support

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Hi all,

I currently have a small media server, that has 3x4TB drives and some other (mix and mash up) drives currently I am using Drivepool to pool my hard drives together the only problem i found is that one of my hard rives (1TB) failed and I am not sure what I lost so I decided to look at alternatives.

Currently my motherboard is a well aged x58 with the i7 920, the problem is that in RAID mode Intel Rapid storage sees the 3x4TB but does not have the ability to create a RAID 5 array (via BIOS or Software), so my guess is that the onboard ROM doesn't support 4TB drives. :(

My question is I am looking at the H97 series and they support RAID 5 but no where can I find if there might be a Hard Drive limitation, so I am trying to uncover if the H97 will natively support 4TB drives?

Thanks
 
jarrydred said:
Hi all,

I currently have a small media server, that has 3x4TB drives and some other (mix and mash up) drives currently I am using Drivepool to pool my hard drives together the only problem i found is that one of my hard rives (1TB) failed and I am not sure what I lost so I decided to look at alternatives.

Currently my motherboard is a well aged x58 with the i7 920, the problem is that in RAID mode Intel Rapid storage sees the 3x4TB but does not have the ability to create a RAID 5 array (via BIOS or Software), so my guess is that the onboard ROM doesn't support 4TB drives. :(

My question is I am looking at the H97 series and they support RAID 5 but no where can I find if there might be a Hard Drive limitation, so I am trying to uncover if the H97 will natively support 4TB drives?

Thanks
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Do you have the latest bios?

Your problem sounds like you don't know what has crashed.

What raid are you running? You can't really be running 4TB drives and other mix-and-mash drives in 1 raid config.

Drivepool might make it seem like 1 but it isn't.

My I7 rig, older than yours with a fairly old BIOS can run 4TB drives. I'm running 6.
 
Hi

Indeed I do have the latest BIOS I have tried on 2 Motherboards one OEM board and the ASUS X58D Premium and both give the same result.

I do know that the 1TB had failed (Mechanical click of death).

Currently I am not running any RAID but rather something similar to JBOD but without the risk of loosing all content, Stablebit Drive Pool which pools all drives under a logical drive, so if a drive gets removed or dies, the content on that drive is only lost.

So I can run 4TB drives no problem but using the Intel RAID BIOS the drives are only 1678GB capacity (once in the OS they are 4TB) and when i create a RAID 5 volume from there it provides only 3.3TB storage on that array. THe problem is once I am in the OS the array isn't available but rather the individual drives.

The Intel RST software (latest version) does function to create a RAID 0 with 2 x 250GB drives but when the 3 x 4TB drives are connected the "create" array option is missing.

Therefore my suspicion is that the Intel RAID controller cant handle 4TB drives to create an array (of any Kind 0/1/5), So I wish to get the H97 series board which supports 6 hard drives in RAID 5 but no where does it list if there is a drive capacity limitation.
 
That's super weird. I also run Asus. But my board is older. I have a P7P55D-E PRO
 
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