Unusual utility needed

[Technojunkie]

Folks

Anyone know if there is a utility out there that will let me add space on harddrives together to fool windows into thinking that it is one continuous huge one?

I.E. I have 4 250G Drives, but I want windows to see this as one 1T Drive.

Cheers

 

[A[L]C]

isnt that something raid can do?

 

[VaderDSL]

isnt that something raid can do?

Raid-0? be fast but damn failure prone

 

[Scottland]

JBOD (as a RAID function) will do it too I think

 

[bitslice]

isn't that what "dynamic disks" are for ?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044


"Dynamic disk storage uses volume-oriented disks, and includes features ... such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks"

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[BillytheImpaler]

JBOD (as a RAID function) will do it too I think

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBOD#Concatenation_.28JBOD.29

Although a concatenation of disks (also called JBOD, or "Just a Bunch Of Drives") is not one of the numbered RAID levels, it is a popular method for combining multiple physical disk drives into a single virtual one. As the name implies, disks are merely concatenated together, end to beginning, so they appear to be a single large disk.

EDIT: Try these instructions: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...roddocs/en-us/dm_spanned_volume.mspx?mfr=true as it sounds as if bitslice had the right idea after all. Note that it would be beneficial to run such an array in hardware rather than in software.

 

[Technojunkie]

Bitslice.....you is da man!


I feel a bit of a muppet, because I think I've actually read this before.

Billytheimpaler....Thanks as well, but the M/Board is an antique (almost) and doesn't support JBOD, hence the software spanning.

Cheers