How to create a more than 64TB software RAID 5 Volume on Windows? [closed]

A customer is looking to create a RAID 5 array on Windows 10 Pro, but Windows RAID 5 only allows him to only create 63 TB volume instead of his 112 TB (he has 8x16 TB HD).

Is there any way to create a 112 GB RAID 5 volume on Windows using a software RAID (including paying software)


Short answer: No, it is not possible to create software RAIDs with this size in Windows (even with 3rd party tools).

Long answer: A lot of NTFS/ReFS features (some of them living in the kernel) support a maximum of 64Tb. Most people don't want to live without VSS, DynamicDisk management, DriveIndex, FastClode oder VHDX-Mount. You can, however, mount multiple massive volumes as folders, so that your ressource "looks" bigger (in one central folder hirarchy).

Opinion: This is a very terrible Idea. No DA storage system (running Windows) would be fast enough to do the amount of RAID parity calculation and I/O write on disks with this size on time - considering a "useful" throughput and/or useful storage latency. Do not do this, even on other OS.

If you need volumes with this size, consider investing in a SAN oder other specialized solutions for that problem (like object storage). Or even better, fix the architecture that led to this requirenment (I don't want to be rude, these are technical limitations and a lot of problems that I would recomment to consider).