I just received a WD 3TB drive and it included a RocketRaid card with two SATA connectors. Is this some kind of Windows thing? Or is WD trying to get me to buy another 3TB drive?
Tony-S Cream of the Crop  9,911 posts Likes: 209 Joined Jan 2006 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA More info | Dec 08, 2010 15:21 | #1 I just received a WD 3TB drive and it included a RocketRaid card with two SATA connectors. Is this some kind of Windows thing? Or is WD trying to get me to buy another 3TB drive? "Raw" is not an acronym, abbreviation, nor a proper noun; thus, it should not be in capital letters.
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Mayniyak Senior Member 256 posts Likes: 1 Joined Sep 2010 More info | Dec 10, 2010 12:32 | #2 Long story short, it's there in case your system has trouble seeing the full 3TB capacity. For the technical details, see here
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Tony-S THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 9,911 posts Likes: 209 Joined Jan 2006 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA More info | Dec 10, 2010 12:50 | #3 Ok, thanks for that. I looks like I'm ok since I'm on OS X. "Raw" is not an acronym, abbreviation, nor a proper noun; thus, it should not be in capital letters.
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Mayniyak Senior Member 256 posts Likes: 1 Joined Sep 2010 More info | Yeah. Windows only has trouble with certain (almost entirely older) hardware, so not everyone will need it.
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toxic Goldmember 3,498 posts Likes: 2 Joined Nov 2008 Location: California More info | Dec 10, 2010 14:46 | #5 Is this because of the BIOS limitation that I've been hearing about? Windows not supporting 3TB, that is.
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Mayniyak Senior Member 256 posts Likes: 1 Joined Sep 2010 More info | Dec 10, 2010 15:50 | #6 toxic wrote in post #11429693  Is this because of the BIOS limitation that I've been hearing about? Windows not supporting 3TB, that is. BIOS and Windows do support it, just not as a boot drive. And some controllers have badly written drivers that can cause problems, which is what the bundled card is for (they know the drivers for it work for sure).
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