Thread: combining two HDD's to make a larger single drive.

when you two are quite finished----

spudboy, the problem is I am trying to use the two 500's as a backup for one 1TB drive,,

I must say the post by jdambalawa is very interesting!

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

when you two are quite finished----

spudboy, the problem is I am trying to use the two 500's as a backup for one 1TB drive,,

I must say the post by jdambalawa is very interesting!

The Win8 solution Is effectively just a software RAID Pedro. If your motherboard supports it, I'd go the hardware RAID route.

If you're just using the RAID 0 array as a backup, it shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't want to rely on a RAID 0 array for my main storage.

You have to be careful. Setting up a bios raid after the OS is installed can be tricky.

OK - I see why you want a combined drive.

I'd suggest just going out and buying a new (maybe not top shelf -> slower) 1TB drive. It will cost you around $100-$120 and surely your backups are worth that.

If you do a hardware "join" of the drives, and the MB fails, then there is no guarantee that the MB you replace it with will be able to read the split drives.

If it is not mission critical stuff then it doesn't matter, but if something fails and you can't read your split drives then they aren't worth a dime.

That's my $0.02, after having spent many hours trying to recover data from a so-called backup set where I couldn't get the array to be recognised by the replacement motherboard.....

Cheers
David

yes red90,, its why this solution "just worked"
took all of 30seconds to "pool" the two drives,,
tried the raid 0 but the machine wouldn't boot afterwoods,,,,
and yes spudboy I did buy a brand new Black Cavier 1TB for this job,,

and its a brick.
format failed or something,, but g-parted wont see it.

Ta Muchly to djambalawa


late edit;
also figured out I have a dead sata connection on the board,,
(luckily not a fast one)
maybe it died and took the HDD with it??