Vista software RAID0 fails to initialize after reboot if > 2TB

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AlexVas

Help!

I've looked over whole internet, and I am very surprised to be unable to
find any answers to this.

I am setting up Windows Dynamic Striped (RAID0) or Spanned volume (GPT) over
four SATA hard drives 1Tb each. Everything is successful. I format the drive,
copy stuff on to it, read it back, its fast, very nice. Then I reboot. After
boot up I foind out that my D: drive is gone, i.e., volume is offline (as
reported by Disk Manager). I can boot as I am using separate (IDE or SATA)
hard drive to boot the Vista from.

Now, if I configure the striped volume to be less then 2Tb (e.g., stripe two
1Tb disks or four x 500Mb partition each), everything works fine. I reboot
and the volume is still there running happily.

No windows event log I can find corresponds to this problem. :(

The configuration is:

Gigabyte motherboard on Intel P35 chipset (another box has X38)
Vista 64bit
c: 1x HD (IDE 800Gb in one box, SATA 320Gb in another) to boot from.
d: 4x 1Tb SATA HD (I've tried IDE emulation, AHCI and Intel Matrix RAID -
h/w raid disabled)
z: IDE DVDROM

Is there anybody has the same problem?

Thanks,
Alex
 
Finally, I've installed Vista SP1 and it fixed the problem! So it was windows
bug after all.
 
Yeah. But you were right, I need to get hardware raid... What should I look
for in the controller? I need speed. It's not video or other streaming, it is
pretty random type of access. Reliability is not important. Most of the
content is read only... about 4-6TB.

Another thing. I've got six computers reading the same data. Can it be
stored centrally, and then feeded into six boxes via fiber or something?

Thanks in advance,
Alex
 
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