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Greater than 2TB drive support for RAID adapters and onboard server board RAID

The table below provides guidelines for deploying hard disk drives greater than 2TB with Intel® RAID Controllers and on Intel® server board onboard RAID solutions.

RAID Type All capacity will be seen for drives >2TB Notes

Intel® 6 Gb/s RAID Controllers

RS25NB008, RS25GB008, RS25DB080, RS2VB080, RS2VB040, RT3WB080, RS2WC040, RS2WC080, RS2SG240, RS2WG160, RS2MB044, RS2BL080, RS2BL080DE, RS2BL080SNGL, RS2BL040, RS2PI008DE, RS2PI008

Yes RAID On Chip (ROC) controllers:
LSI2008
LSI2108
LSI2208
LSI2308

Intel® RAID Modules

RMS2MH080, RMS2AF080, RMS2AF040, RMS2LL080, RMS2LL040

Yes RAID On Chip (ROC) controllers:
LSI2008
LSI2108

Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2) on C600/C200/PCH3420/ICH10R chipset based server boards

S5520HC/S5500HCV, S5520UR, S5520SC, S5500WB12V/S5500WB, S3420GP, S1200BTL/S1200BTS, S1200KP

Yes Motherboard BIOS needs updated to include OpROM v.10.02251631 or later

Intel® RST and AHCI mode on Intel® C200/PCH3420/ICH10R chipset based server boards

S5520HC/S5500HCV, S5520UR, S5520SC, S5500WB12V/S5500WB, S3420GP, S1200BTL/S1200BTS, S1200KP

Yes

Intel® 3 Gb/s RAID Controllers

SRCSASBB8I, SRCSASLS4I, SRCSASJV, SRCSASRB, SRCSATAWB, SROMBSASMR, SRCSASPH16I, SASWT4I, SASUC8I, SASMF8I, SROMBSASMR, AXX4SASMOD

No

Only first 2TB will be seen and configured 

RAID On Chip (ROC) controllers:
LSI1064e
LSI1068
LSI1078

Intel® RAID Controllers integrated in Intel® Server Systems

S7000FC4UR with the SAS riser card SROMBSASFC

No Only first 2TB will be seen and configured

S5520UR or S5000PAL motherboard based server systems with SROMBSASMP2 or FALSASMP2

SR2600URLXR, SR2600URLX, SR2625URLXR, SR2625URLX, SR2625URLXT, SR2625URSASR, SR2625URSAS

No Only first 2TB will be seen and configured

S5000PAL motherboard based server systems with SROMBSAS18E or FALSASMP

SR1550ALSASR, SR1550ALSAS, SR2500ALLXR, SR2500ALLX

No Only first 2TB will be seen and configured

S5520UR or S5000PAL motherboard based server systems with active SAS backplane ASR1500SASBP

SR1600URHSR, SR1600URHS, SR1500ALSASR, SR1500ALSAS

No Only first 2TB will be seen and configured

This applies to:
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF080
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2LL040
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2LL080
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2MH080
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR
Intel® RAID Controller RS25DB080
Intel® RAID Controller RS25GB008
Intel® RAID Controller RS25NB008
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL040
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080
Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044
Intel® RAID Controller RS2PI008
Intel® RAID Controller RS2SG244
Intel® RAID Controller RS2VB040
Intel® RAID Controller RS2VB080
Intel® RAID Controller RS2WC040
Intel® RAID Controller RS2WC080
Intel® RAID Controller RS2WG160
Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080
Intel® RAID Controller SASMF8I
Intel® RAID Controller SASUC8I
Intel® RAID Controller SASWT4I
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASBB8I
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASJV
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASLS4I
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASPH16I
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASRB
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSATAWB
Intel® Server Board S1200BT
Intel® Server Board S3420GP
Intel® Server Board S5000PAL
Intel® Server Board S5500HCV
Intel® Server Board S5500WB
Intel® Server Board S5520HC
Intel® Server Board S5520UR
Intel® Server System S7000FC4UR
Intel® Server System SR1600UR
Intel® Server System SR2600UR
Intel® Server System SR2625UR
Intel® Workstation Board S5520SC

Solution ID: CS-032920
Date Created: 02-Nov-2011
Last Modified: 23-Nov-2011
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