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Using multi drives in windows.

nicholastank2
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Hey there, so on my Personal Rig, i have a 500gb samsung 970 evo as a boot drive with all the OS, drivers, Office and Programs like Steam, BattleNet, origin, and so on. and then i have a 4tb hard drive for mass storage, so all my games and videos, pictures and stuff like that. i wanna add another 4TB Hard Drive (Mostly because I wanna a badass personal Rig, not cause I need it), but is there a way to have a windows drive (example: Mass Storage for me on Windows is D Drive), is there a way to have D drive span multiple physical drives (I honestly just wanna see drive D have 8tb of storage)? don't really wanna use raid cause I don't care about the extra performance and the would rather keep the stuff I already have. 

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3 minutes ago, nicholastank2 said:

but is there a way to have a windows drive (example: Mass Storage for me on Windows is D Drive), is there a way to have D drive span multiple physical drives (I honestly just wanna see drive D have 8tb of storage)?

Yes but all the data on the drive currently would be erased.

I will recommend an NHu12s (or an NHd15 (maybe)) for your PC build. Quote or @ me @Prodigy_Smit for me to see your replies.

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1 minute ago, Smit Devrukhkar said:

Yes but all the data on the drive currently would be erased.

Ah, well thanks my dude. if I was to go down the route of erasing everything, would I be raiding them together ?

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2 minutes ago, nicholastank2 said:

 

Ah, well thanks my dude. if I was to go down the route of erasing everything, would I be raiding them together ?

Nope. In windows disk management you can create a spanned volume which basically tells windows its 1 drives but its actually 2. Not sure about this >>>(Also if 1 drive in a spanned volume dies I think all the data is lost)

I will recommend an NHu12s (or an NHd15 (maybe)) for your PC build. Quote or @ me @Prodigy_Smit for me to see your replies.

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Desktop :

i7 8700 | Quadro P4000 8GB |  64gb 2933Mhz cl18 | 500 GB Samsung 960 Pro | 1tb SSD Samsung 850 evo

Laptop :

ASUS G14 | R9 5900hs | RTX 3060 | 16GB 3200Mhz | 1 TB SSD

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Yes using the "New Spanned Volume" feature in disk management and like @Smit Devrukhkar if one drive fails you lose all your data in those drives (personal experience). It's basically like a pseudo raid 0

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So basically, better to have them seperate haha, I was thinking about that being a major issue. but want to see if there would a better way I didn't already know. thanks you guys.

 

 

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