[SOLVED] Raid0 multiple partitions on one drive to make server on local rooter (rooter only acepts x8 partitions of 2TB max)

[thibault.michel]

I added a 8TB storage unit on my rooter and had to devide it in 4x2TB partitions to work, aperently it doesnt allow more than 2TB for each partition. So my question would be if I clould run thees partitions in raid0 to make it look like 8TB again instead of 4x2TB. If so could someone plz help me out? Ps I'm shure raid0 would be fine couse it would be on the same optical drive XD. I also saw someone asked a question about this in 2018 but the conversation got a little bit out of hand and he was doing this for his pc drives.

 

[RealBeast]

What is your router model number?
It is very likely that you need to use a GPT format rather than MBR that has a 2 TB partition limit.
And no, you do not want to attempt to run RAID 0 on the partitions on a single drive.

 

[USAFRet]

So my question would be if I clould run thees partitions in raid0 to make it look like 8TB again instead of 4x2TB

There are probably worse configurations you could try to make...but I can't think of one.

Don't do this.
Don't even try to do this.

 

[USAFRet]

Why, specifically, did you have to split this into 4x 2TB partitions?

 

[thibault.michel]

Hi again,
Router model is: Archer C1200 running hardware version 2.0.
It did not read the 8TB hardrive at first and I didnt new why then I readed this post Click here case 2 was the answer. After I launched AOMEI partition asisstant to split the drive in 4 It actualy started reading the drive. Now its enoing couse its displaying 4 saperated drives of 2TB and lets say I wanted to upload a file of 3TB its curently not posiblle to do. This is how the drive looks on the network curently.

 

[kanewolf]

Did you attempt to format the drive with the router? My guess is that you had a PC compatible file system on the drive. Routers are Linux based devices and PC file systems are not native. You might be able to have a single 8TB volume if you let the router format the device.

 

[RealBeast]

Did you read the Click here link that you posted above, which says "the total capacity of each partition of usb drive cannot exceed 5TB ?"