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I am guessing that in order to get something close to JBOD from within windows you would convert the disks to dynamic from within disk management and then create a spanned volume?
If this is the case are there any gotchas that I need to be aware of as far as upgrading hardware? If I wanted to upgrade one of the 500GB drives to a 2TB drive down the road, how will I know what data resides on that 500GB drive so I can move it before I remove the drive?
What if I reinstall windows or upgrade the motherboard or even swap the connectors on the drives around?
I cannot afford a raid card with enough ports right now and I have been burned in the past when I was using integrated raid controller on my motherboard and the motherboard stopped working and my new motherboard had a different raid controller. So it seems that software JBOD from within windows would be the best solution.
I like to keep certain types of files within a single folder or drive, but once that drive fills up I have to start a second folder with the same types of files. I would prefer to have one huge logical drive spanning many physical disks where each folder would grow as large as it needs up to the limit of the combined total of all the drives (except for my boot drive).
I just ordered a couple of 1.5TB drives and would like to span them as single 3TB drive/partition from within windows 7 as long as I won't get burned down the road if I reinstall windows or need to replace a drive or motherboard.
If this is the case are there any gotchas that I need to be aware of as far as upgrading hardware? If I wanted to upgrade one of the 500GB drives to a 2TB drive down the road, how will I know what data resides on that 500GB drive so I can move it before I remove the drive?
What if I reinstall windows or upgrade the motherboard or even swap the connectors on the drives around?
I cannot afford a raid card with enough ports right now and I have been burned in the past when I was using integrated raid controller on my motherboard and the motherboard stopped working and my new motherboard had a different raid controller. So it seems that software JBOD from within windows would be the best solution.
I like to keep certain types of files within a single folder or drive, but once that drive fills up I have to start a second folder with the same types of files. I would prefer to have one huge logical drive spanning many physical disks where each folder would grow as large as it needs up to the limit of the combined total of all the drives (except for my boot drive).
I just ordered a couple of 1.5TB drives and would like to span them as single 3TB drive/partition from within windows 7 as long as I won't get burned down the road if I reinstall windows or need to replace a drive or motherboard.