Question Windows 11 - RAID 5 16x20tb - NTFS?

boed · Apr 9, 2025

Hello,

I know you a lot of people like linux and unraid but let's talk Windows 11 24h2 16 x 20TB. I have the drives and I have a controller. I have multiple backups using smaller servers. I'm about to set it up from scratch. I'm thinking it will be about 270tb which as far as I know is over the ntfs limit. I never used REFS before.

Short of using unraid, linux, raid6 within the parameters of Windows 11 what would you do?

Micrornd · Apr 10, 2025

boed said:
I'm thinking it will be about 270tb which as far as I know is over the ntfs limit.

That's no longer necessarily true, see here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/ntfs-overview

I personally use an LSI 9361-8i with an Adaptec 82885T expander to run 2 - 180Tb R6 volumes using a i7-11700K on a Z590 motherboard as a Plexserver and it works great.
While you may have an abundance of disks, you don't always need 1 large volume to get the work done.

Question Windows 11 - RAID 5 16x20tb - NTFS?

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