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Combining SD drives ?

  • 01-04-2013 8:57pm
    #1
    trackerman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭


    Folks,
    I have a 120 Gb SD drive as my boot drive and it's nearly full!

    Can I add a second 120Gb SD drive and create a virtual 240 Gb boot drive?

    Sort of partitioning but in reverse...


    Thanks

    Ray


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  • #2
    paulmclaughlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭paulmclaughlin


    Yes it's called a spanned drive. Biggest problem though is if one drive fails, your data is lost.

    EDIT: Not sure if you can do it with existing data on one drive. Why not just have a second separate drive?


  • #3
    trackerman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭trackerman


    Hi Paul,
    I need to increase the size of the Boot drive (C drive), the SD works really fast as a Boot.
    So I thought adding a seperate drive with a different drive letter would not solve the Boot drive capacity issue... or am I wrong?

    Thanks,
    Ray


  • #4
    Deano12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Deano12345


    trackerman wrote: »
    Hi Paul,
    I need to increase the size of the Boot drive (C drive), the SD works really fast as a Boot.
    So I thought adding a seperate drive with a different drive letter would not solve the Boot drive capacity issue... or am I wrong?

    Thanks,
    Ray

    Adding another drive will just give you another 120GB of space, if you wanted a 240GB drive, you'd need to create a RAID 0 array with your 2 SSD's, however this means wiping all the data on both drives, unless you can do it through software RAID, which I dont think you can.

    I think your best bet is to get an external HDD, make an image of your OS, then create a RAID array and then restore the image back on to your new array


  • #5
    trackerman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭trackerman


    Deano12345 wrote: »
    Adding another drive will just give you another 120GB of space, if you wanted a 240GB drive, you'd need to create a RAID 0 array with your 2 SSD's, however this means wiping all the data on both drives, unless you can do it through software RAID, which I dont think you can.

    I think your best bet is to get an external HDD, make an image of your OS, then create a RAID array and then restore the image back on to your new array

    Thanks,
    It might be just as easy to purchase a 240Gb SD and swap the OS over. I can reuse the 120Gb in another PC...

    I'm not too comfortable with RAID.

    Cheers
    Ray


  • #6
    Deano12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Deano12345


    trackerman wrote: »
    Thanks,
    It might be just as easy to purchase a 240Gb SD and swap the OS over. I can reuse the 120Gb in another PC...

    I'm not too comfortable with RAID.

    Cheers
    Ray

    Thats the other option too, a lot easier than setting up RAID and all that goes along with it !


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  • #7
    trackerman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭trackerman


    trackerman wrote: »
    Thanks,
    It might be just as easy to purchase a 240Gb SD and swap the OS over. I can reuse the 120Gb in another PC...

    I'm not too comfortable with RAID.

    Cheers
    Ray
    What are people buying these days for SSD drives? My last one was Samsung. I see Komplett do 500Gb for €309 (SSD 840).... Any good?


  • #8
    Deano12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Deano12345


    trackerman wrote: »
    What are people buying these days for SSD drives? My last one was Samsung. I see Komplett do 500Gb for €309 (SSD 840).... Any good?

    Generally the 830 or 840 Pro (make sure its the Pro Model of the 840), the Crucial M4 and the Intel 335's are the most recommended at the moment.


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