Hoody_s13 Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 Hey all, I've just built up everything in my new pc and having dramas with the 3 TB drives. Firstly I'm using a Asus Rampage III Extreme board, 2x 3TB Western Digital Drives, and using the onboard raid controller Intel ICH10. Loading everything up for the first time, changing the drives to GPT in windows disk manager, I get full capacity (roughly 2.75TB) on each drive. So I go back into the bios, change the Storage configurator setting from 'IDE' to 'RAID' and reboot, go into the raid controller options and set up as Raid 1. The raid controller options display the drives as 746GB each??? Running the drives in Raid 1, or as non raid with the settings in bios still on 'RAID', also wont allow windows too see these two as many more than 746gb. Tried using Asus Disk Unlocker which did not detect the drives. Any help here? The whole purpose of me buying the drives was for large storage with redundancy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCRO Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 try updating the BIOS, maybe the newer ones have a support for larger platters, try Googling 3TB+ hard drive configs with your motherboard, you may need a internal RAID card if anything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedway Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 You are going to have problems right now with anything over 2TB. WD has been very up front about this issue. Currently I think the only way to get around it, is with something like this card as suggested by MJ. Sorry for the bad news, but it is possible to get it working! They actually had similiar problems when the 2TB drives came out! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 Try the latest intel storage drivers since they now support drives larger than 2TB. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody_s13 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Sorry about the late reply, havent had much time this weekend to try fix it. Just checked my bios version, its the latest so cant do anything there. My intel drivers are up too date, I dont think that would solve any issues outside of windows right? Since im trying to set this raid up in bios/dos I guess the raid controller is the only option, will this cause any conflicting issues with my mobo or the onboard intel ich10 chip? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebarone Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 You arent booting from these drives are you? Why not just software RAID them if nothing else? Its built into Windows 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody_s13 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 (edited) Silly me just realised the card that came with the HDD is the highpoint 620 raid controller... i just assumed it was a plain old sata card. Now my other problem, my sound card is running in the PCI express x1 slot, so where can I put this? I've got 3x PCI express x16 and one PCI express x8. Can it go in one of the 16x? My future upgrades wont be going further than a 2x SLI setup, so can I be affected by scaling later on? Edited January 23, 2011 by hoody_s13 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 You can put it in any PCIe slot ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 some of the pcie 16x slots arent even wired up for full 16x just 8x, i think its brilliant, all the differnt pcie standards working together, that is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody_s13 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Even the PCI express 8x where the notch in the slot is towards the front of the case? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCRO Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 that's why it sucks if you have anything except P67 right now, some of those new Gigabyte boards do 3TB+ off the native controller, which is baaallleerrr! lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody_s13 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 ok tried out the highpoint 620 raid controller before. first time booted, after posted said updating ATA controller card firmware, booted into windows and drives were detected as singles. tried to get into the bios for the controller using Ctrl + H, with no luck. Noticed everytime i booted it said updating the firmware. Also after the first boot, the drives were no longer detected... what a drag setting these babies up in raid 1 has become Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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