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My goal is to have one massive storage pool/drive extender whatever term you want to use to easily store my video data (10TB plus). I am not going for any redundancy since most of the data is retrievable via bi-monthly backups or i can re-rip my blue rays etc (but of course i want something good/stable)
From my research using a drive pooling software like "Drive Bender", "StablBit" or "FlexRAID" is better than "Spanning" on windows 7 since the latter leaves the MBR on the first drive; so if the first drive goes all data across all drives is lost. However with 3rd party software this is not the case; one drive goes then the data on THAT drive goes but not on the others.
Firstly is this correct?
Secondly if so what software or other solutions would people recommend. I don't care about price; i want ease of use and stability
Thirdly I would actually prefer to use windows software raid as this seems like the easist and most compatible option. So is there a way to have that if one disk fails only data on THAT disk is gone and the rest is retrievable; by inserting it into an external caddy or a different PC?
Thanks for the help
From my research using a drive pooling software like "Drive Bender", "StablBit" or "FlexRAID" is better than "Spanning" on windows 7 since the latter leaves the MBR on the first drive; so if the first drive goes all data across all drives is lost. However with 3rd party software this is not the case; one drive goes then the data on THAT drive goes but not on the others.
Firstly is this correct?
Secondly if so what software or other solutions would people recommend. I don't care about price; i want ease of use and stability
Thirdly I would actually prefer to use windows software raid as this seems like the easist and most compatible option. So is there a way to have that if one disk fails only data on THAT disk is gone and the rest is retrievable; by inserting it into an external caddy or a different PC?
Thanks for the help
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