Converting two SATA drives into one Volume

oliver79

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Hi all,

In Vista can anybody tell me how I can convert an external HD Caddy which has two SATA HD in it into one large volume?

Many thanks
 
edijs said:
as far as I know you have to build a RAID0 to have two disks appear as one
:agree: although, running a RAID0 can be not a good idea
Wikipedia

RAID0 Provides improved performance and additional storage but no fault tolerance. Any disk failure destroys the array, which becomes more likely with more disks in the array. A single disk failure destroys the entire array because when data is written to a RAID 0 drive, the data is broken into fragments. The number of fragments is dictated by the number of disks in the drive. The fragments are written to their respective disks simultaneously on the same sector. This allows smaller sections of the entire chunk of data to be read off the drive in parallel, giving this type of arrangement huge bandwidth. When one sector on one of the disks fails, however, the corresponding sector on every other disk is rendered useless because part of the data is now corrupted. RAID 0 does not implement error checking so any error is unrecoverable. More disks in the array means higher bandwidth, but greater risk of data loss
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yeah, well, RAID0 might not be the best solution (could make more problems than it solves), but it does what's stated in the question/request...
 
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