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[fris]

anyway to join 2 drives into 1?

say i got a 256gb solid state, and a 128gb solid state, can i combine them into 1 drive?

[xenigo]

If you were to do it, it would be done through a RAID 0 array. But I'm fairly certain RAID 0 only works with two identical drives, not with mismatched capacities.

Edit: I was mistaken. You can use two mismatched drives.

http://www.overclock.net/t/644874/ne...ves-for-raid-0

[DamianJ]

RAID, but I think it needs identical disk sizes

[HomerSimpson]

What OS?

On linux:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/combine...ner-lvm-linux/

http://superuser.com/questions/83034...ives-in-ubuntu

other than raid (that requires same sized HDDs) don't know if it's possible other way...

[DamianJ]

Actually the new Drobo looks like it works with different size SSDs

http://www.drobo.com/news/press-rele...2012_06_21.php

[fris]

os is windows 7, also whats the best image drive software? dont wanna reinstall windows

[raymor]

What you want is called spanning or JBOD. Linux has had it since 1996, so Windows should get a good implementation around 2016. I'm not kidding there - Windows is consistently 18-21 years behind on enterprise features and five years ahead on their GUI.


For now, you can use a mount, where one drive appears as a folder inside drive C. The Unixes had that in 1970, Linux on day one in 1991, so Windows got it in 2003 - 22 years later. There is a small performance hit in the Microsoft implementation because they implemented it using drive sharing, the machine shares the drive to itself.

Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Then click Disk Management Select the volume you wish to mount inside of another and click Change Drive Letter and Paths From there you choose Mount in the following empty NTFS folder.

You COULD also use Windows immature spanning, but you won't be able to boot from either drive. See:
http://www.techfuels.com/storage/177...ed-volume.html

[mafia_man]

If you were to do it, it would be done through a RAID 0 array. But I'm fairly certain RAID 0 only works with two identical drives, not with mismatched capacities.

Edit: I was mistaken. You can use two mismatched drives.

http://www.overclock.net/t/644874/ne...ves-for-raid-0

Raid will work with 2 drives but it'll have only the smallest size capacity.

So 2 * 128GB.

[bigluv]

Windows can span or extend a volume but it may have restrictions on which ones you can do.

[Quagmire]

os is windows 7, also whats the best image drive software? dont wanna reinstall windows

Farstone Drive Clone Pro 6
http://www.farstone.com/resources/demo-dcpro/

HDClone 4.1
http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html

I have found HDClone can be a little wonky with 64bit OS