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Judahnator
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hey,

I am looking to expand my storage server's capacity (right its just 80GB). i have tons of identical 120GB drives lieing around, and i was wondering if something like software raid existed? my motherboard dosnt support it, so if it could be done in the OS that would be amazing.

i was thinking something like RAID 0+1. does anyone know if there is software to make this work? and if so where could i get it?

thanks,

Judahnator

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What you could do is in windows combine all the new drives into a new partition, in that way they are all the same drive.. i for an example have 2x 2 tb drives combined to a 4 tb drives. works great. Although you dont have the security if a drive fails as you would have in a proper raid setup.

You do it in "Disk Management" under windows 7.

you get the disk management by: right click my computer -> click manage -> right bar click Disk management -> u are set to go :)

it should be easy to combine the drives, but should u seek help let us know :)

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Are you running Windows? If so, you can use Dynamic disks to create software raid in Windows Server... just be warned, any software RAID will put a large performance hit on your system...

Go into your Disk Management, choose the Basic disk and you can convert it yo Dynamic. Again though - most times this isn't recommended. Also, if you create a raid set with the boot drive and the "root" drive fails in say RAID1 - windows may still not boot, due to static disk and partition settings in the boot.ini. You need to edit this file as well. This can be a bit complicated to get right. If you are just putting additional disks into raid sets, say RAID1 for some drives holding data, this isn't so much of an issue.

I would recommend though, if serious, look at an add on card for doing hardware based raid.

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