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post #1 of 11
10/19/12 at 1:12pm
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I have this i3 box i put together to run a small minecraft server for my friends and myself. I want to re purpose it for used as a DVR (ceton cable card recorder.), and I plan to purchase several surveillance cameras.

I have a foxcon H67M-V, and this next part is confusing.
It has UEFI boot options (I can choose uefi boot for my CD-DVD drive)...so I ordered 4 3TB drives for it...only to log into the bios to find no uefi settings. And it wont let me format it in GPT @ 3TB

therefore, I am confused. doesn't one require the other?

The actual question is, if i hook the hard drives up to my Z77 and format them to 3TB apiece, can i plug them into the crappy foxcon motherboard and raid them for raid 5? ~9TB data storage, 3TBfor parity.

speck sheet:
16GB ddr3 1600 gskill
i3-2120t 1155
foxcon h67M-V
120GB kingston ssd (boot drive)
4x3TB caviar red
Ceton InfiniTV 4

I know I am missing something obvious here. just help a fellow overclocker out smile.gif
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post #2 of 11
10/19/12 at 1:26pm
I might be misunderstanding here...but you sound like you are trying to format the hard drives in your UEFI?

The UEFI is your BIOS now. You need a disk partitioning tool to format in GPT...such what you will find when installing windows.

Though I'd recommend going with an old fashioned smaller partition as MBR for your OS install and then format GPT in 3TB partitions for storage.

Actually looked your board up...that mother board is still BIOS based. It doesn't have UEFI on it.
Edited by Vagrant Storm - 10/19/12 at 1:29pm
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post #3 of 11
10/19/12 at 1:58pm
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I have my OS on the SSD (therefore the UEFI boot issue should be avoided) if I wanted to use the raid as a boot drive I would have trouble. I might not have been clear about that sorry, currently at work. typing between helping customers, easy to loose thought process.

I am just have a hellish time remembering how to get the 3TB drives formatted. When using raid I am pretty sure the size of the disks does not matter. I remember doing it in the command prompt the last time I tried and I cant find that article I cheated off of.
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post #4 of 11
10/20/12 at 6:18am
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So an update. I have the 4 discs formatted in windows to 2.75TB apiece. In the BIOS however, when I try to create a RAID all 4 show up as 746GB.

This probably means the motherboard cant use drives larger than 2TB?
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post #5 of 11
10/20/12 at 9:56am
Just saying, I'd skip using the motherboard and probably use windows softwarei raid 5. It doesn't take much CPU away.
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post #6 of 11
10/21/12 at 3:51pm
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Yea, I plugged all 4 into my Z77 motherboard and it raided just fine. Its a motherboard limitation. I will try the software RAID, and if the speed is too slow will have to swap motherboards and use an inferior motherboard for my 2700k frown.gif

or I will just keep my rig on 24x7.
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post #7 of 11
10/28/12 at 11:22pm
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Everything is working great on my Z77 board. getting about 515mbps (burst) and about 200 (sustained) read. The software RAID really killed performance (was only getting about 100mbps sustained read) great suggestion through. the write speed I don't really care about (hense no testing) but the cable card recorder works just fine on all 4 channels.

Even with a 2700K, the 4 drives, 120gb ssd and 1.5tb installs drive, eclaro, gtx590, 640 (physics) and cablecard reader only draws about 200 watts according to my UPS. *thumbs up

The i3 box was drawing around 110watts with 4 drives, ssd, tuner, sound card, 8800gts. so that is not a big deal to me (not yet anyway).

Thanks for the hints guys.


P.S. In windows 7 RAID 5 was unavailable. I had to mount it in Linux, speeds were less than desirable, so I pushed it off to the onboard controller.
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post #8 of 11
10/30/12 at 4:13am
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P.S. In windows 7 RAID 5 was unavailable. I had to mount it in Linux, speeds were less than desirable, so I pushed it off to the onboard controller.

Yeah to use windows raid 5 i think you need windows 7 pro. Or possibly ultimate.
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post #9 of 11
10/30/12 at 11:40am
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I was using a fresh Ultimate install. the RAID 5 option was greyed out. only had raid 1 and raid 0 as possible options.
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post #10 of 11
10/30/12 at 1:00pm
That is interesting, to hear about Raid 5 not in Ultimate. Recently, I had the option to buy Ultimate or Pro and decided to stick with Pro.
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