Dear americo, We have messed two different parameters here. Value, that Anatoly have mentioned, is a size of the logical disk sector, not the size of the file system block. And NTFS cluster size is totally different parameter, it is a characteristic of the file system. Standard values for logical s...

Well, the topic that you have dropped the link to is pretty old - it was created 3 years ago. 512B requirement is pretty new, and it will be removed in future release since we do realize that it will be more comfortable to exist without this requirement. In other words - this is temporary. Anatoly,...

512B is StarWind requirement, not MS. Could you point me to this requrement? Nothing about that here: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/system-requirements According to Anton Kolomyeytsev, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software: "StarWind is STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION soft...

It seams like you need to change the sector size on your RAID array to 512B instead of 4KB that you are using now. Anatoly, The default cluster size for NTFS volume from 2 to 16 TB is 4kb: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365?wa=wsignin1.0 Also this command works just fine: D:\>fsutil file create...

Please find both the log and minidump here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/an695d7wp774l3d/udi2gBncUZ

Regards,
Andrew

I have ver. 6.0.5228, free licence. I seems that service crashes when it tries to open image file created on a very big local drive. I have 14TB storage. In the system log I see this: "Failed to open image file [D:\Stores\store1.img]". StarWind log file is attached. I also have a minidump ...