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easg
09-22-2003, 11:36 AM
Is it possible to make two drives, a 15 GB slave and a 20 gb master both seagate, to looks and work as a single 35 gb drive? I need this to capture video in AVI format. if possible, will this slow performance?
doctorgonzo
09-22-2003, 11:40 AM
You can do that if you have XP Pro by creating dynamic disks.
easg
09-22-2003, 11:57 AM
Is there a good guide out there?
doctorgonzo
09-22-2003, 12:03 PM
This (http://www.techtutorials.com/tutorials/xp/xpdiskmanagementtool.shtml) may be useful.
andyms18a
09-22-2003, 12:20 PM
it is posable but if one drive failes then you can lose all data on both drives so keep a good backup on cdrw
easg
09-22-2003, 01:25 PM
How will this slow down the system, I need this for real time AVI video capture from VHS.
doctorgonzo
09-22-2003, 01:46 PM
I don't know if it will slow down the system much. This is essentially JBOD, and all that means is that it will fill the first drive with data until it is full, and then move onto the next drive. However, it will appear as one volume to you.

If you are looking for speed, then you will need another version of RAID, like drive striping.