I have a couple of raid enclosures, with a total of about 21 TB usable (RAID5) in a W2K8 environment. I would like just a single virtual volume spanning the physical devices, but it is my understanding that the NTFS volume size limit is 16 TB. Is this a hard constraint or a MSFT recommendation? What is my exposure if I go ahead and roll the bigass 21 TB volume? Thanks!
Is NTFS 16 TB volume size limit “real”
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Microsoft distributes at least two Sysinternals tools for this.
Use the fsutil command:
fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo [drive letter]
You'll have to run this command with administrator privileges.
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Best Answer
In Windows 2003, 232-1 clusters. With 64k clusters = 256TB
With full 264-1 sizing, 256 TB * 256 TB
21 TB is a rounding error, quite frankly
Did you check your facts before posting?