Two Drives, one partition?

[WoofWoof]

Someone asked me today whether it's possible to have a single
partition spread onto two drives (say, make two 10G drives look like
one 20G partition).

My first reaction was "nah" but then I had a vague feeling that I'd
sen something on this.

Anyone know if it's possible?

 

[Jetro]

You've read about the spanned volumes or junction points or RAIDs.

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help. Also consider a hardware raid.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=222189


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| Someone asked me today whether it's possible to have a single
| partition spread onto two drives (say, make two 10G drives look like
| one 20G partition).
|
| My first reaction was "nah" but then I had a vague feeling that I'd
| sen something on this.
|
| Anyone know if it's possible?

 

[anon]

Why would you do that?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Depends on what you're asking about.

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| Why would you do that?

 

[Rob Stow]

drives look like


feeling that I'd

In one way it is more common than most people realize.
Just set up a two-disk stripe set, a.k.a. "RAID 0".
It makes the two drives appear to everything else as a
single physical disk of twice the capacity.

The downside is that all data written to the stripe set
gets striped (hence the name) across the drives and
if one drive in the stripe set fails you lose everything.
Very fast reads and writes, however. Lots of resources
available on the www to tell you more about RAID 0.