2 Physical Hdd's seen as 1 logican hdd?

[theStudent]

Hi,

I have a small master hdd, and going to be formatting 2 large hdd's as slaves...

Is it possible to format these 2 slave hdd's, such that is appears as 1 logical drive on Windows Xp?

Thanks

 

[dabouncer]

Raid.

 

[WiseCrack]

Those two drives you want to run in RAID will have to be the same size if I am not mistaken.

 

[The_Techie]

RAID0 would be the way to go.

Be warned, though: If you put hard drives of different sizes in a RAID0 array, the array will only be as large as the smallest hard drive multiplied by the number of hard drives in the array, e.g when constructing a RAID0 array of a 500GB, 750GB and a 1TB hard drive, the result will be a 1.5TB array

 

[Pilgrim]

What about dynamic volumes?

 

[The_Techie]

What about dynamic volumes?

RAID0 is, in essence, a spanned volume across multiple dynamic volumes.

Here is a nice explaination

 

[theStudent]

Thanks...

This is a normal pc though.. with windows xp..

will it be easy to set up raid on these 2 harddrives?

 

[The_Techie]

Thanks...

This is a normal pc though.. with windows xp..

will it be easy to set up raid on these 2 harddrives?

It shouldn't pose a problem

 

[jsxza]

You can also select "JBOD" in the raid config if the hard disks are not the exact same size. It will put the disks together but it will not have the RAID 0 performance improvement.

 

[SilverNodashi]

Bear in mind, if either drive fails, you could loose all the data, since it will be stripped across the two drives.

 

[The_Techie]

You can also select "JBOD" in the raid config if the hard disks are not the exact same size. It will put the disks together but it will not have the RAID 0 performance improvement.

That might be better than a RAID0 array in this case. I doubt he's doing this for the performance benefit