So I have two 256gb ssds and one 500gb ssd, is it possible to combine them in a single 1tb drive ? I mainly want this for ease of access, with all of my folders and programs in one place instead of having to switch between different drives.
I've read about making a spanned drive but I have no idea how it works.
Thank you.
Posted Dec 4, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC
U Could do a Raid 0
Combines both drives into one.
But when 1 Drive breaks data on the other one will be lost too.
Also 500GB+ 256GB = 756GB and not 1TB.
But op has TWO 256 GB drives, therefore 1TB :)
Dammit ur absolutly right....now im the stoopid here o.o
It's would be 256(out of 500)+256=512gb though in raid0.
Raid0 work by striping data across drives and the amount of striped data in each drive must be the same which result in only 256gb of 500gb being usable in raid0.
It is possible using RAID but unnecessary. I have three SSDs. Two 512GB and a 1TB. System works great. Don’t need to combine them. I know what goes where. I can set them up however I want.
Alright I'll consider not touching anything, thanks
Yeah, most people do the opposite xd.
They have a 1TB drive and create partitions for that drive for easier storage, one for images, other for documents, oter for games, etc...
Partitioning disks doesn't really make sense imo unless you have a very specific use case. It used to be that you had a separate system and data partition so that if your system got irreparably screwed up and you needed to format it, you wouldn't lose all your data.
If you have any sort of idea of what you're doing with your PC you don't really need that, and having multiple partitions is just an unnecessary pain in the ass.
I was just saying that it is more common, not better, xd
You could use Windows Storage Spaces and combine them into JBOD (all drives are combined and assigned the same drive letter) or RAID (or you could use the BIOS to enable the RAID controller if your motherboard supports it) but given the small/different sizes of your disks (and possibly different speeds?) I don't really see the advantage of RAID.
You can setup a RAID 0
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Thanks for the info everyone :)
You're talking about a spanned volume. You can easily find tutorials with a google search but afaik it's in no way superior to RAID 0 because data is lost if a single drive dies too, and it doesn't provide read/write speed benefits.
You should look into RAID if you want to give it a shot but I don't think it's worth it for your use case.