Spanned Hard Drives

[Chris H]

I am quite familiar with storage but I have a questions.

In my home computer I have 1x 120GB HDD and 1 x8GB, both IDE.

my 120 has C: of 10gb, windows and D: of 110, applications.

My 8GB just has 1 partition E:, which hosts a virtual HDD for VMware and my
pagefile, its on a separate bus so a small increase in performance.

I was wondering, is it possible to set-up a spanned partition across C: and
E:

I am not sure if you can set-up a spanned partition using only 1 partition
of a hard drive and not the other and also as C:has windows on it, if I can
do this, would I see any performance increase? Also which is spanned is it
RAID-0?

Thanks
Chris

 

[paulmd]

I am quite familiar with storage but I have a questions.

In my home computer I have 1x 120GB HDD and 1 x8GB, both IDE.

my 120 has C: of 10gb, windows and D: of 110, applications.

My 8GB just has 1 partition E:, which hosts a virtual HDD for VMware and my
pagefile, its on a separate bus so a small increase in performance.

I was wondering, is it possible to set-up a spanned partition across C: and
E:

I am not sure if you can set-up a spanned partition using only 1 partition
of a hard drive and not the other and also as C:has windows on it, if I can
do this, would I see any performance increase? Also which is spanned is it
RAID-0?

Thanks
Chris

No. Windows will not span the boot partition.

You CAN span D-E. But given the dissimiliarity of your drives, and the
suckiness of software RAID, I don't think it would be a good idea. Or
at any rate, no perormance benefit.


Raid 0 is spanned.
Raid 1 is mirrored.

More RAID stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

 

[Chris H]

Ok, I wont bother then until I upgrade to some bigger SATA's, since I have
RAID on the mobo I can easily use that and get a nice performance increase
out of it, Thanks for the help

Chris

 

[paulmd]

Ok, I wont bother then until I upgrade to some bigger SATA's, since I have
RAID on the mobo I can easily use that and get a nice performance increase
out of it, Thanks for the help

Chris

You're welcome