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Spanning drive with out data loss risk.

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Limp Gawd
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me and my roomate just put together a system with 7 hard drives in it :) but we want to make a few of the drives look like one in my computer.

We already attempted to do teh diskspanning feature in windows xp by extending a volume, the problem with that is that when one drive gets lost you lose all the data.

basically what we want is to see one drive in my computer and for all the data to be written to one drive at a time, so if one drive dies we would only lose the data on that drive itself.

are there any programs that can acomplish this?

thanks.
 
Spanning (JBOD / RAID7) does not offer any redundancy, and if one drive fails you loose everything, thats it's nature. If you want one big drive and fault tolerance, RAID5 is really your only option. RAID0+1 would work too, but the efficiency of the usable space would be poor.
 
seriously..why?

you can mount NTFS drives to folders in a single drive
you can employ dynamic disks and span volumes
you can RAID them (as mentioned)

while there is the danger of data loss do to loosing a HDD in the array dynamic disks JBOD
data recovery from the other drives would probably come off with out a hitch

But I too would recommend RAID for a "single" massive drive
but I wouldnt to do that without a very copmpelling reason
in fact my RAID 5 array is partitioned into 5 seperate drives
 
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