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StoreMi with more than 2 drives? (Lets find a non-raid solution to drive compilation)

Phineas
By Phineas
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Hi, is there any way to make a StoreMI array with more than 2 drives? if not, is there any software that can do this? I have a variety of drives of many different speeds and sizes (1 HDD, a bunch of SATA SSDs and 2 NVME SSDs), and would like to virtually combine them. Raid will not work because of the sizes. Any ideas or help will be appreciated. Below you will find a picture of my current drive setup in disk manager. Disk 0 is my most recent NVME SSD (just installed a few minutes ago,) so that is why it is unallocated. 

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Hello and welcome.

 

If I remember correctly it wasn't an option.  However, if it is an option then I would recommend against using StoreMI because there isn't a non-destructive way to uninstall it.  I'd look at PrimoCache to see what its capabilities are.  PrimoCache can be uninstalled without having to wipe drives.  

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I have primocache installed and am currently figuring out how to use it, so that is why I have not mentioned it specifically (I tried StoreMi first and it didn't work due to the 2 drive limitation.) Thanks for the heads up though!

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If it helps clarify things for anyone, the "Compilation Program" Is what I need to find. 

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Also, anyone know how to combine drives with primocache? If this is possible, primocache could be used as the combination program. 

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Windows 10 Storage Spaces. Works great with a ton of drives. You need to know PowerShell to get the most flexibility out of it, though.

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