Spanned Drives

[BlathaBlather]

Hello Internet,

 

I currently have two drives in my PC. 1x256GB SSD for boot and 1TB hdd for steam games and files. Though I am coming close to filling up that drive. I have learnt that you can create spanned drives which allow for you to add multiple drives together for more storage, even if there of different sizes (fill one up, then move on to the next one). Would creating a spanned volume delete all the data on the partition? If not, how would I go with increasing my storage size without having to lose all of my files? Thanks

 

BlathaBlather

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, BlathaBlather said:

 

Probably not worth considering anything like that. Likely unreliable like RAID 0, and only necessary if you'd need to store like a single file that's 50TB

 

Just buy a 2TB drive to replace your 1TB drive at some point.

[BlathaBlather]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Probably not worth considering anything like that. Likely unreliable like RAID 0, and only necessary if you'd need to store like a single file that's 50TB

 

Just buy a 2TB drive to replace your 1TB drive at some point.

Then what do I do with my spare drive?

 

[MedievalMatt]

2 minutes ago, BlathaBlather said:

Then what do I do with my spare drive?

 

.......activities.....

[Gikero]

While possible I would highly recommend against this. Reason being if one drive fails you're losing data.The whole point with increasing storage is retaining data you have + adding more. It isn't a matter of if, it is when. Microsoft's Storage Space tech isn't perfect.

Moving your existing data to a larger drive isn't difficult and there are software solutions to make it "turn-key" easy.

 

Just now, BlathaBlather said:

Then what do I do with my spare drive?

 

Use it as a swap drive, make a offline image of your boot drive and keep it around in case you have options. Securely erase and sell, offsetting some of the cost of a new drive. Use it to install a secondary OS. All viable options.

[Streetguru]

Just now, BlathaBlather said:

Then what do I do with my spare drive?

 

Use it as back up or just the keep it in the system or sell it?

 

a New 2TB baracuda is probably the minimum to buy, if you end up looking on the part picker there's going to be a lot of used hard drives cheaper than it, don't bother with them

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/CbL7YJ/seagate-barracuda-2tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm006