Hard Drive - Combining

jellybeard999 · 18 Jun 2009 at 21:54

I believe this is possible, but am not sure what it's called

I've seen it used at least.

I have seperate physical HDD E:\TV1 and F:\TV2 - I want to make a seperate "virtual" drive ie Z:\TV which references both and allows it to be referenced (ie in Media Center) and mapped over the network.

m4cc45 · 18 Jun 2009 at 22:21

I think basically what you are trying to do is RAID 0 the drives. However this requires a RAID card (normally on board SATA cards have basic RAID functions - check your manual) it will also require you to format the drive as one big one so any data on there is lost.

Not sure of an application that can see the two drives and merge them as one though so RAID is the only solution I know of.

M.

Mattus · 18 Jun 2009 at 23:08

It's called JBOD, but I don't think you can do it without a controller card or Windows Server, and it doesn't really have any advantages over RAID 0.

jellybeard999 · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:08

I should maybe have mentioned, but it's not a RAID level, nor JBOD, spanning etc.

The drives are single physical and logical drives. It's a software command / tool / whatever which maps the references to a virtual drive / folder.

UKDTweak · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:26

Perhaps you are thinking of spanning the disks via windows software (Dynamic Disks), this is software RAID though?

chaosophy · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:50

DFS? Distributed File System.

Allows you to redirect folders, shares etc to another location. So you can move data around in the back ground and as long as the DFS links are updated the users still access the same path.