Windows 7 - Drive Pool?

[james111]

One of the features that I love about Windows Home Server is the drive pool. No matter how many physical hard drives there are WHS just sees C:\ and D:\. Running out of storage? Just throw in another hard drive.

On my 7 machine I already need to add a hard drive for storage. Is there an elegant method to be able to use that additional hard drive with my libraries so that all new files are saved to the new drive but when I open the library I see all the locations on both the C: and D: drives in one window?

TIA!

 

[theinv]

I think one way is to use RAID.

You can buy an 8-bay enclosure, a SAS RAID controller, setup the drives as RAID5 (start with 4 drives). When u run out of space, simply add another drive and do online raid expansion/migration to include the new drive. The only drawback is you can't mix drives of different sizes.

 

[unhappy_mage]

On my 7 machine I already need to add a hard drive for storage. Is there an elegant method to be able to use that additional hard drive with my libraries so that all new files are saved to the new drive but when I open the library I see all the locations on both the C: and D: drives in one window?

I don't know if I'd call it elegant, but you can right-click on the library, add D:, and set it as the default save location.

 

[[LYL]Homer]

How about just put all the files on a share in your WHS?