HDD's

chigowolfs

I have 3 HDD in my computer, is there anyway to combine them so they act like one big HDD???? :?

JackTheStripper

Get a RAID controller?

JackTheStripper

Heres a card that should do the job. $19 shipped.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 001&depa=0

If you have SATA or SCSI, look around. They're on there.

chigowolfs

Thanks guys

chigowolfs

raid 0 is striping... that would combine the drives right??? raid 1 would mirro what is on one drive on another.... am I correct in this?

SurfinShell23

Yup. RAID0 isn't going to offer any data protection I don't believe, but RAID1 will get you a physical backup in case of drive failure.

Slash

Maybe you can make the same without RAID,
Just mount all drives as folders!

chigowolfs

slash, what do you mean

Slash

If you are using Win2000 or higher, you can mount all the drives as a folder in your system drive. Go to Disk Management.

chigowolfs

I will look into that Thanks for the info

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Q

Just becareful that you aren't going to need to access it from anything other then Windows 2000, XP, or 2003. Unless I'm wrong (Knowing how long it's been very likely) only those Windowses can access dynamic disks.

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NTL1991

You can do that? Cool... How would the files know where to go: 1st hdd, 2nd hdd, etc.?

Q

If it's RAID, I think they get split into certain sized blocks and then written to each drive in sequence.

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BOD

well presumably the comp would tell them to fill the first disk first and so on.,...

Q

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_0

I don't think so (If I'm reading that right)...

-Q

Slash

With the appearence of Dynamic Disks, there is no need of Raids...
Well, sometimes M$ do great things.

SurfinShell23

Yea but I consider a real RAID solution better than some MS thing.

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chigowolfs

I am looking to just combine 2 hard drives
I am going to try the MS route

chigowolfs

hmmm the mounting of it wasnt that I was looking for.

Slash

Mounting and dynamic disks are not the same!
When you mount, your second HDD is stored in a folder on your first HDD.
And when using dynamic volumes, 2 HDDs are just treated as one!

chigowolfs

hmm i couldnt find where to go on that one slash