Raid the right answer?

[dgm6780]

I have a 40GB Western Digiatal and and a 20GB Fujitsu for hard drives. Now they are just 2 seperate physcial and logical drives. What I hope to do is make it so that when something is writing to one and it fills up it will go to the other. I only have 24GB free on teh 40GB one and it oftens hits 0 on some movies I make and cant finish. So I put the 20GB from my old computer in it. The problem is that the 20GB one isnt even 7200RPM, its the one a step below. So I just want to use it for storage and burner overrun. Is raid my answer? Link to something telling me how to set it up?

Thanks

 

[theELVISCERATOR]

I have a 40GB Western Digiatal and and a 20GB Fujitsu for hard drives. Now they are just 2 seperate physcial and logical drives. What I hope to do is make it so that when something is writing to one and it fills up it will go to the other. I only have 24GB free on teh 40GB one and it oftens hits 0 on some movies I make and cant finish. So I put the 20GB from my old computer in it. The problem is that the 20GB one isnt even 7200RPM, its the one a step below. So I just want to use it for storage and burner overrun. Is raid my answer? Link to something telling me how to set it up?

Thanks

your answer is to buy a new large drive and extend your c drive onto it.

raid needs to run on 2 identical drives and they need to be fast ones ideally.

 

[dgm6780]

Buying new hard drives isnt an option at this juncture in time

 

[theELVISCERATOR]

Buying new hard drives isnt an option at this juncture in time

well with a total of 60 gb of space your system is not considered ideal for video editing.

 

[Sonny]

If your going to create a JBOD setup with those 2 drives to create more storage space as the only goal then yes it is possible if you hardware supports this feature. Though not ideal it can be done if thats your only option at the moment.

 

[I.M.O.G.]

Raid would give you a maximum of 40 gb total... It can not do what you are suggesting.

What you can get in capacity is 2 times the smallest drive, so you would be limited by the slowest and smallest drive.

 

[FTC]

If your going to create a JBOD setup with those 2 drives to create more storage space as the only goal then yes it is possible if you hardware supports this feature.

... And even if the hardware does NOT support it, it is my understanding that you can do it under your windows XP using dynamic extended volumes. (unless XP home has this option unavailable). Consider however the drawbacks of dynamic volumes (such as most imaging software unable to manage those)

Regards
FTC