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New Intel RST storage drivers support >2TB drives

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:54 pm
by Apoptosis
New Intel RST storage drivers support >2TB drives

Intel Rapid Storage Technology, version 10.1 adds support for hard disk drives with capacities greater than 2 terabytes in AHCI mode. It is important to note that booting to these larger capacity hard drives also requires an operating system and UEFI BIOS that supports booting to a GPT partition. If the system does not meet these requirements, these large capacity drives may only be used as secondary storage. Intel is planning to add RAID mode support for these large capacity hard drives in a future release.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... 9&lang=eng
Detailed Description
Note: Before installing this application or requesting technical support from Intel, it is suggested that you first contact your system manufacturer. They may provide software which is specifically configured for your system.

This driver provides support for high-capacity & fault-tolerant Serial ATA (SATA) RAID 5 arrays and high-performance & fault-tolerant SATA RAID 10 arrays on select Intel® 5 Series, 4 Series, 3 Series, 965, 975X, 955X and 945 chipset-based platforms. It provides support for high-performance SATA RAID 0 arrays & redundant SATA RAID 1 arrays on select Intel® 5 Series, 4 Series, 3 Series, 965, 975X, 955X, 945, 925, 915 chipset-based platforms. It also provides AHCI support on select Intel® 5 Series, 4 Series, 3 Series, 965, 975X, 955X, 945, 925 and 915 chipset-based platforms, as well as on Mobile Intel® 915/910 chipset-based platforms.

Note: Intel® RAID Technology requires the Intel® ICH9R/ICH9M-E/ICH10R/PCH-PCH-M SATA RAID controller hub, Intel® 82801HR I/O controller hub (ICH8R), Intel® 631xESB/632xESB I/O controller hub, Intel® 82801GR/GH I/O controller hub (ICH7R/DH), Intel® 82801FR I/O controller hub (ICH6R).

Re: New Intel RST storage drivers support >2TB drives

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:09 pm
by gwolfman
Thanks for the news! :)

Re: New Intel RST storage drivers support >2TB drives

Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:41 am
by mikewse
It seems you are saying the latest version of Intel RST does not support making RAID arrays with the new >2TB disks.
Is this correct?

Re: New Intel RST storage drivers support >2TB drives

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:05 am
by mikewse
After asking in the Intel forums I got the information that RAID mode with large disks isn't currently supported:
http://communities.intel.com/message/112306#112306
The latest Intel Rapid Storage does not have support for 3tb hard disk drives on RAID mode. Only for AHCI. Future releases of the Intel® Rapid Storage software will support >2TB hard drives on RAID.