5 Phsical drives but 1 Partition???

[Quentin_T]

I was wondering if I could fool windows, or use windows to create 1 partition out of 5 drives?

I am turning an old PC into a media server, and have a bunch (5) of old hard drives ranging in size and manufacturer. Instead of having 5 partitions for each drive, I would like to combine them, just for convenience. I will storing a lot of large movies files from 4.5-15 GB each and don't really feel like alphabetizing them on 5 drives.

Any thoughts are welcome!

Thanks.

 

[The_Other_One]

I'm quite sure with RAID 0, you could use different sized drives, resulting in five times the size of the smallest drive.

 

[tlarkin]

yes, its called dynamic disks and you can set it up in windows xp (haven't tried it in vista). google it

 

[Quentin_T]

yes, its called dynamic disks and you can set it up in windows xp (haven't tried it in vista). google it

I knew there was something...

Only problem is I only found 3 Hdds 1 is for the OS.