how to make my documents include two drives?

domyboy · 19 Oct 2007 at 16:51

hello, i just bought another seagate barricuda 250gb as my other 250gb barracuda was nearly full, however i have a few questions, i setup the hd and partioned the drive so its ready to use. When im saving to my documents it keeps fillign up the old one and iv no room, how can i get my documents to use both hard drives, or is this not possible, but i dont want to make another my documents in the other hd, if not how could i tak my documents and put the whole thing in the new hd drive and leave all the sytem and program stuff on the other hd? thanks dom :d

michael baxter · 19 Oct 2007 at 16:54

Click 'Start'
Right click 'My Docs'
Click 'properties'

From there you can specify the location of MyDoc's.

domyboy · 19 Oct 2007 at 16:58

ah, just done it, need to wait 200min to move it rofl, thanks

Im guessing that it cannot share two hardrives? or does it need to be with raid? or can the drives be raided even if one has data on it?

swinnie · 19 Oct 2007 at 21:53

When I was on work experience a guy there was using a computer that was making all the drives on the network appear as one drive and he was linking folders etc.

But I haven't got a clue what the software is called though.

What a plonker I am!

michael baxter · 20 Oct 2007 at 19:59

domyboy said:
Im guessing that it cannot share two hardrives? or does it need to be with raid? or can the drives be raided even if one has data on it?

Yes, RAID would be good means to share the drives. But, first you would need to backup any data you wanted to keep. Then create a RAID, and you'd probably choose to go RAID0, which would create one 500GB drive. This would also provide near double bandwidth as well, as the drives are operating in parallel.

But, if you just want to have a huge MyDoc's, then you could simply create a shortcut in MyDoc's to the other drive/folder.

JoeCooper · 21 Oct 2007 at 15:14

raid 0 and have them both as 1 drive

Mattus · 21 Oct 2007 at 21:28

RAID 0 might not be such a good idea for data he can't afford to lose (and as this is his My Documents folder he probably has some important stuff in there.) Make sure you keep regular backups if you're using RAID 0 as it does make you twice as likely to lose your data.

michael baxter · 22 Oct 2007 at 13:19

Mattus said:
Make sure you keep regular backups if you're using RAID 0 as it does make you twice as likely to lose your data.

I agree, backups are essential - but that applies to any drive setup, RAID or otherwise.

It doesn't make you twice as likely to lose your data, it makes data loss due to drive failure twice as likely - which is small when compared to all the other means to lose data. This would include malware and user error, for example.