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Is it possible to merge SATA to make them appear as a single HDD?

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  • 01-04-2009 8:33pm
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    Run_to_da_hills
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    I have seen this with SCSI where you can merge several HDDS to make them appear as one drive in the local disk options. Can this be done with SATA?


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    Spear
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I have seen this with SCSI where you can merge several HDDS to make them appear as one drive in the local disk options. Can this be done with SATA?

    RAID


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    sink
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    Depends on your motherboard or your OS. Most motherboards these days will allow you to do so, what you want is either a JBOD SPAN/concatenate function or RAID 0. Win XP pro can also do it using software, not sure about vista.

    If the two hard drives are the same model and size I would recommend RAID 0 as this will allow for faster data transfer speeds. If they are of different models and/or sizes I would recommend JBOD SPAN/concatenate as you will be less likely to run into problems.

    What is your OS and motherboard?


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