The PERC H700 can use disks larger than 2TB. The R415 maximum capacity is 8TB+ (the only reason it lists 8TB is because that was the maximum based on the largest disks Dell tested/validated at the time of the writing you found). Current spec sheet shows 12TB: [URL] The problem you are running into is with the OS: So, you can either "slice" the RAID by creating multiple arrays across the disks, with the boot "disk" smaller than 2TB, or you need to enable UEFI and reinstall the OS in that mode (GPT conversion is data-destructive).
Hi! I have recently bought a Dell PowerEdge R415 with the following Specs:AMD Opteron 4180 - 2.6 GHz / 6.4GT/s (Six Core)8 GB ECC DDR3 RAMAMD SR5670 and SP5100 chipsetPerc H700 Raid controlleriDrac 6 Express & EnterpriseWindows Server 2012 R2Kingston 128gb SSD Now here is my problem: I was originally planning to be using 2x Seagate Barracuda 3TB HDDs in RAID 1 as a storage partition but while windows detects their full size it only makes partition in 2TB on them. I thought Perch H700 would be able to use 3TB drives. Was I wrong? And also on Dells website it says the PowerEdge R415s maximum capacity is 8TB is this true or could you run 4x 3TB Drives in it?
PowerEdge R415 HDD Setup