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  1. 5th March 2013, 04:45 PM #1
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    combining two HDD's to make a larger single drive.

    So I have two 500gb drives I would like to turn into a single drive.
    Win 8 will be on another drive.
    both are already formatted and have disposable
    data on them.

    Is this a raid thing?
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    raid 0

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    ok,, but can I do that on a live system
    I will only use the array for storage,,
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    ok,, but can I do that on a live system
    I will only use the array for storage,,
    yes, create the array via the raid option before the OS boots then partition and format it in windows.

    JBOD is good for combining drives of different sizes, but in this case better to go with RAID, I'd doubt his M/b will have jbod anyhow
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    I'd suggest you just use them as 2 500Mb drives. If you start doing tricky things and one drive fails, you can lose all data on both drives. What is the problem with having them separate as 2 drives?
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    Windows 8 has a new feature called Storage Spaces that can do this live and is apparently pretty good.. I havent tried it tho...

    How to Use Windows 8′s Storage Spaces to Mirror & Combine Drives
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    I'm no expert but for 2 small drives just keeping them as separate drives will work fine, one for the OS and one for storage and backups.
    I would only use raid for a NAS arrangement or server .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aussie View Post
    JBOD is good for combining drives of different sizes, but in this case better to go with RAID, I'd doubt his M/b will have jbod anyhow
    sorry, i missed the bit about them being the same size.
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  10. 6th March 2013, 10:41 AM #10
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    I'd suggest you just use them as 2 500Mb drives. If you start doing tricky things and one drive fails, you can lose all data on both drives. What is the problem with having them separate as 2 drives?
    500mb?! Wow, what I'd give for that kind of storage capacity on my machine.

    You'll be telling me next that Intel brought out something new to replace that Pentium 2 thingy that people were raving on about.
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