Spanned drives and large files

[Nutty_Death]

I've spanned a 256gb and a 180gb add together. When I copy single files onto this span which are bigger than the smaller drive it stops and says the drive is out of space.
I assumed it would auto magically span across both drives. Before anyone says I don't care about the risk of data loss from a drive failing whilst using span. The files are there just whilst uncompress large files.

Is this a span limitation? Setup issue? Is there another way of doing this perhaps with raid?

 

[Nutty_Death]

Thanks.
Stripped seems to give me just the size of one drive. Presumably because it's replicated across both. Do you know of a guide to do what you've suggested please?

 

[Nutty_Death]

Thanks, I'll take a look. I was doing this just via windows disk management.

 

[Nutty_Death]

I would look at using windows storage spaces, it's a better solution than motherboard raid setups imo for what you are trying to do.

Thanks, that's done the trick.

Had to briefly disable then re-enable the drives to get it to work when creating the space. Some type of caching issue perhaps.