Hi All,
What I'm looking to do is to span a folder across ~three hard drives. What I want to be able to do is open up a folder and view the merged contents of all there hard disks, and when I write to this folder I'd like to have been able to specify an order of preference (although it's not critical) so that it initially tries to write to c:\, but if that's full it will roll-over to d:\, or if that's full it will roll-over to e:\. It needs to be readable (but not necessarily writeable) on a network too.
I think I can do a similar thing with RAID0/JBOD but I don't want to lose any data if one of the hard drives crashes or I take one out; I'd still like to effectively be able to see all three drives separately but to also have a merged view of them. I don't really want files to be split across the drives when they're being copied either; I'd like complete files saved on a single hard drive rather than being split across them all.
As an example:
The contents of c:\myvideos
-video1
-video2
The contents of d:\myvideos
-video3
-video4
I open up the merged drive view and its contents will be:
-video1
-video2
-video3
-video4
I try to write to the merged drive and it will copy initially to c:\myvideos but if that is too full to fit the file it will try to use d:\myvideos instead.
I guess I could just buy a bigger hard drive rather than faffing around with three, but hey
.
Thanks
.
What I'm looking to do is to span a folder across ~three hard drives. What I want to be able to do is open up a folder and view the merged contents of all there hard disks, and when I write to this folder I'd like to have been able to specify an order of preference (although it's not critical) so that it initially tries to write to c:\, but if that's full it will roll-over to d:\, or if that's full it will roll-over to e:\. It needs to be readable (but not necessarily writeable) on a network too.
I think I can do a similar thing with RAID0/JBOD but I don't want to lose any data if one of the hard drives crashes or I take one out; I'd still like to effectively be able to see all three drives separately but to also have a merged view of them. I don't really want files to be split across the drives when they're being copied either; I'd like complete files saved on a single hard drive rather than being split across them all.
As an example:
The contents of c:\myvideos
-video1
-video2
The contents of d:\myvideos
-video3
-video4
I open up the merged drive view and its contents will be:
-video1
-video2
-video3
-video4
I try to write to the merged drive and it will copy initially to c:\myvideos but if that is too full to fit the file it will try to use d:\myvideos instead.
I guess I could just buy a bigger hard drive rather than faffing around with three, but hey
.Thanks
.
