Getting two hard drives to act as one partition

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Nickompoop, Nov 2, 2009.

  1. Nickompoop

    Nickompoop Private E-2

    I have a 160 GB internal SATA II HDD and a 250 GB external SATA II HDD.
    I want to put the 250 GB one in my computer and have both HDD's act as one partition.

    What I want to know is if doing this will erase any/all files on those HDD's and if it will funk with my OS (Vista Home Basic) in any form. Thanks.
     
    Nickompoop, Nov 2, 2009
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  2. Fred_G

    Fred_G Heat packin' geek

    What do you mean having 2 drives act as one partition? You could run them in a RAID 0, but the smaller drive would limit you using anything over 160Gig on the larger drive. With RAID 0, it would appear as one 320Gig drive.

    Would need a little more info for the data loss.
     
    Fred_G, Nov 2, 2009
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  3. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    Well if you want to make a raid array you will loose all data on the drives. I think you have to use all the same drives but I could be wrong tho.

    The only way I know to make one big partition is to use JBOD (Just A Bunch Of Disks)
     
    pclover, Nov 2, 2009
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