One problem might be. You can only create one logical volume on a RAID10 (the same applies to RAID50 and RAID60), that leaves you with a boot drive greater than 2TB, which might give you some trouble to boot of.
I can imagine that this is a reason why sales can't book it. Just to avoid future problems with customers not aware of that. But why 3.6TB I can't tell you either... Fact is, you can configure a RAID10 out of 6x 1TB HDDs. You even should be able to boot that drive of using UEFI in that server. (But no guarantee for the UEFI part ;-) ) Jens From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandro Possa Sent: 28 January 2010 17:36 To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: raid10 array size limit? Hi all, So, I was about to order a r710, and asked for 6 disks of 1TB each, to build a raid10 array with them. The odd part is that my sales rep told me that he couldnt sell me this config - 6x1TB disks in a raid10 array - because "the sum of all disks in a raid10 can be greater than 3.6TB". He said it twice, so I'm positive that he meant what he said. But, if I did a raid5, it was fine, I could use all the disks. After some googling I found nothing that could lead me to this information. Reading PERC 6/i and 6/E documentation I found nothing too. Do any of you ever heard about this? Regards, Sandro
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