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AcquisitiveOne
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Yes this can be done by using dynamic disks and creating a spanned volume. You can make up to 32 HD seem like one volume (Make 2 HDs of 20 GB each to one 40GB D: drive for example).
Microsoft Definition:
A spanned volume is created from free disk space that is linked together from multiple disks. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 disks. A spanned volume cannot be mirrored and is not fault-tolerant.
The only problem you will you may run into is that I dont think that you can span your system or boot partition. Which is normally your C: partition. By the way it sounds in this case you want to make your C: span two disks to be 40GB. Please let me know if this helps!
Acquisitive_One
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Microsoft Definition:
A spanned volume is created from free disk space that is linked together from multiple disks. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 disks. A spanned volume cannot be mirrored and is not fault-tolerant.
The only problem you will you may run into is that I dont think that you can span your system or boot partition. Which is normally your C: partition. By the way it sounds in this case you want to make your C: span two disks to be 40GB. Please let me know if this helps!
Acquisitive_One
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Acquisitive - 1. Characterized by a strong desire to gain and possess. 2. Tending to acquire and retain ideas or information
Is RAID 0 what you want to stripe 2 drives together? There are several types of raid. Some newer mainboards come with two or three levels of RAID built into the board. In other cases you can buy products that will do it for you.
If you had at least 3 drives you could use RAID 5 which uses distributed parity information for better fault tolerance. Fox example, if ne drive fails, you swap it out and the data is rebuilt from information on the other two. The drawback is that some of the total available space is used to store the parity/repair information. Servers often use RAID 5.
If you had at least 3 drives you could use RAID 5 which uses distributed parity information for better fault tolerance. Fox example, if ne drive fails, you swap it out and the data is rebuilt from information on the other two. The drawback is that some of the total available space is used to store the parity/repair information. Servers often use RAID 5.
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