Drive Station Duo 6TB on Server 2003 x64

[araczek]

Hi,

 

Have the Drive Station Duo 6TB  USB 3.0 drive. I would LIKE the drives to be seen as one single drive. I know about the 2TB limits and such. I changed the

RAID to "Spanned" as the manual says it will appear as one drive, but it appears as 3 drives: 2TB 2TB 1.5TB when unallocated. Can I get what I want?

 

Also the utilities won't load on Server 2003 2003 x64. Why is that? Gives me a message: not for the current OS or something like that.

 

??? Why not seen as one drive?

[Jotin]

These are limitations of your OS. You need Server 2008 to see the drive as one drive and the software is not compatible with your OS.

[araczek]

Well I did get the software installed, just drilled down futher in the directory structure and found the executable. Second I did get the unit

to be seen as one drive converted to GPT (normal drives). But transfers are slow . I have a StarTech Superspeed USB 3.0 controller that has an internal Molex connector for power but being as this is installed in a server I don't have a connection to this connector.

 

Transfers don't seem any better than USB 2. Changed to RAID 0 but same thing. Transfers not "super fast". Not upgrading OS just to get the drive to work better.

 

...Alan