Merge 2 Hard Disks?

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-----Original Message-----
I have two separate hard disks in my computer and I was
wondering if I could set Windows XP Pro up to recognise
them as one. Can windows do it or 3rd party software?

Windows XP has the ability for some RAID features.
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There are a few types of RAID. RAID 0 is disk-
mirroring.RAID 1 is Disk Striping. Disk Striping is a
method of writing a little bit of data to each hard drive
and is usually faster than writing to a single hard
drive. Usually, the hard drive is a bottleneck when
writing to disk. Adding a hard drive in a RAID 1
configuration should make you write to your hard drive
faster. In effect, you are making two hard drives act as
one. I have never done it so I don't know how easy it
is. I would think as long as you have two IDE cable
connectors and you are using dynamic disks Windows will
Stripe the disks. There are add-on cards that you can
purchase but I don't remember how much or which
configuration would have an impact on speed.
 
RAID 0 is disk striping and RAID 1 is disk mirroring. No matter which RAID you
choose, RAID is best done with at least 2 hard disks of the same size and speed,
as it will default to the smallest and slowest drive.

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Regards,

Durand

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-----Original Message-----
I have two separate hard disks in my computer and I was
wondering if I could set Windows XP Pro up to recognise
them as one. Can windows do it or 3rd party software?

Windows XP has the ability for some RAID features.
Click to expand...
There are a few types of RAID. RAID 0 is disk-
mirroring.RAID 1 is Disk Striping. Disk Striping is a
method of writing a little bit of data to each hard drive
and is usually faster than writing to a single hard
drive. Usually, the hard drive is a bottleneck when
writing to disk. Adding a hard drive in a RAID 1
configuration should make you write to your hard drive
faster. In effect, you are making two hard drives act as
one. I have never done it so I don't know how easy it
is. I would think as long as you have two IDE cable
connectors and you are using dynamic disks Windows will
Stripe the disks. There are add-on cards that you can
purchase but I don't remember how much or which
configuration would have an impact on speed.
 
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