Thread: can you make two hard drives look like one?

Make a RAID array. If your motherboard has a RAID controller you can use it to do that, or you can buy a 3rd party one if you want to ... otherwise I'm not aware of any methods to do what you want.

You can RAID them in Win2k. But with raid, if one HD goes bad, then you lose the entire array

Raid 0, or JBOD configurations will do just what you want.
(JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks)

Originally Posted by 0l33l

You can RAID them in Win2k. But with raid, if one HD goes bad, then you lose the entire array

Not always true, depends on the configuration, but in this case, you're right.

Originally Posted by frodobaggins

Not always true, depends on the configuration, but in this case, you're right.

Well, yeh. If you have then not raided, then if one goes down then just that one goes down. The problems start when you start striping data across the disks (raid 0, etc).

Originally Posted by XxAndyxX

0|33|, are you saying that configuring the disks in "RAID 0" can actually cause data transfer errors, or are you just saying, logically if you have twice as many disks then it's twice as likely for it (the logical RAID 0 drive) to go bad? -hope that makes sense

Do some research about RAID0. It stripes the data across both disks. So say 1/2 your file is on 1 disk, and 1/2 the file is on the other. If one disk goes down, then your disk isn't really useful because it has 1/2 the data on it
But raid0 is faster at certain times. There are also other RAID modes, Like RAID1, which is cloning. And RAID5.

I think he is saying that if one of the two drives does go bad in the array (for whatever reason) you will lose the data on both drives.