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nitrobass24

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I am setting up a windows based storage server for my house and i have 4x 250gb SATA2 hard drives. Is there any way I can set this up to where it looks like a single 1TB drive?? Or any other suggestions would be appreciated. :confused:
 
nitrobass24 said:
I am setting up a storage server for my house and i have 4x 250gb SATA2 hard drives. Is there any way I can set this up to where it looks like a single 1TB drive?? Or any other suggestions would be appreciated. :confused:
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yeah its called raid :) might wanna have a read at it.
 
What you're thinking of is a JBOD (just a bunch of disks). The drives are all separate, but they appear as one volume to the OS.
For that kind of storage though, you might want to look into running a raid-5 to have some redundancy (just dont forget raid!=backup)
 
What you're thinking of is a JBOD (just a bunch of disks). The drives are all separate, but they appear as one volume to the OS.
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A JBOD is what i was thinking of because i dont really need backup. All this is for is for a place for me and my roomates to put our dvds and music on so we can stream it to our home theatre sys; and a comp to run my ftp. How would i get a JBOD to work?
 
nitrobass24 said:
A JBOD is what i was thinking of because i dont really need backup. All this is for is for a place for me and my roomates to put our dvds and music on so we can stream it to our home theatre sys; and a comp to run my ftp. How would i get a JBOD to work?
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Windows or Linux?

In windows it is called drive or volume spanning, it is done in the Disk Management MMC (right click on My Computer->Manage)
 
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