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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: WolfWalker on April 12, 2008, 08:29:51 am

Title: 2x500gig can you
Post by: WolfWalker on April 12, 2008, 08:29:51 am

hook them so that they look like one drive. I hope that I don't have to use a raid setup. Vista setup, the drives are both WD mybooks. I am losing space on c:

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: Doof on April 12, 2008, 09:46:57 am

I'm not sure you can do that without RAID, but if you have XP or Vista, you can mount one drive as a folder inside another. Not sure if that would help you out or not.

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: MrHaugen on April 13, 2008, 06:28:01 am

RAID 0 would be the best and most efficient way to do it. If you don't have the hardware for that, I belive you're only choise is to mount the other disk as a directory on the oter disk.
The space restirictions inside the one directory will probably be different the rest of the disk. Can be a bit confusing I guess.

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: Mr ChriZ on April 13, 2008, 10:46:21 am

Windows XP/Vista has built in software RAID allowing striping but I don't believe
that it works with external drives, only internal.

Not sure what would happen if one drive failed either, probably good bye data...

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: Doof on April 13, 2008, 12:57:52 pm

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on April 13, 2008, 10:46:21 am

Windows XP/Vista has built in software RAID allowing striping

Does it? I thought it only did mirroring.

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: KingSparta on April 13, 2008, 01:19:07 pm

I Don't think Software Raid Is The Way To Go Since That Will Slow The System Down Where Hardware Will Be More Efficient.

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: johnnyboy on April 13, 2008, 08:16:00 pm

Everyone seems so into having everything as one big drive.

I just have tons of drives in my computer and dont worry about it ;)

I think I have a:

c:
d:
e:
g:
L:
m:
n:
s:

drive lol.

I just use Directory op's 'alias' feature and whenever I want something I just type:

/films
/pictures
/music

etc and it jumps me straight to the right drive and the right folders etc.
Works beautifully.

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: WolfWalker on April 14, 2008, 06:08:27 am

johnnyboy

Can tell me how u did your setup. Ithink what u have done will work better

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: johnnyboy on April 14, 2008, 09:24:51 am

Just install directory opus (I cant live without this program - so much better than Windows Explorer).
Open it and go to Favourites > Edit Favourites.
In the dialog that opens - click on 'Folder Aliases'
Here you can set shortcuts to whatever you want.
This is the Unix way of doing things (Aliases) and they make the most sense!

Just use different drives for different media types to make it easy.
All my music is on my M drive (hence M)
Software is on my S drive (go figure!)
G is my general drive (shock horror!)

I just then alias everything so:

/mp3s  takes me to:  m:\mp3s\
/albums takes me to:   m:\mp3s\full albums\
/soundtracks to:   m:\mp3s\soundtracks\
/films to:  g:\divx\

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: bspachman on April 14, 2008, 11:07:27 am

Why not use volume spanning? I actually have a setup that includes 8 500GB drives formatted as 2 TB RAID5 volumes, then spanned to be a single drive letter.

Don't worry about RAID--check out the spanning feature...
brad

Title: Re: 2x500gig can you
Post by: ThoBar on April 18, 2008, 06:20:53 am

Quote from: bspachman on April 14, 2008, 11:07:27 am

Why not use volume spanning? I actually have a setup that includes 8 500GB drives formatted as 2 TB RAID5 volumes, then spanned to be a single drive letter.

Don't worry about RAID--check out the spanning feature...
brad

... and have REALLY good backups in this scenario!!!

You're 8 times as likely to have a drive failure that results in the loss of the entire volume...