Multiple HDs seen as one volume

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  1. jokr004

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    Ok, I have four hard drives, two connected to the mother board, two connected to a scsi bus. I want all four HDs to appear and be used as one large volume, instead of four seperate ones. Is there some kind of software that can do this for me? Or perhaps through windows?
     
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    Also, JBOD will work for you. It's good at combining a bunch of odd sized HDD's... If all your HD's are the same capacity, I'd go with RAID, but if they aren't... JBOD is your logical solution.
    Here read this from wiki
     
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    is jbod a software or hardware thing ? can i get a program to do it or just configure it?
    i got a lot of small discs lol
     
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    It's software, unlike RAID, but you will probably need a program to do it.
     
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    Where can I get a program?
     
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    The chipset manufacturer of your board (e.g. ATI, Nvidia, SIS, Nvidia or ULI) usually has a raid utility if it's compatible that should let you use JBOD. If not, then try looking around the Acronis website.
     
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    Hi,

    I am trying to do the same thing, but according to microsoft, you cannot upgrade a basic scsi disk to a dynamic disk if its on a shared bus, which is my problem. I just found this thread and acutally posted my questions and findings here in the software forum since I 1st wanted to just use windows for JBOD

    http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/342841

    If you guys can help me I would appreciate it. I only have 2 small scsi drives, each 5G and I want a 10G volume. I cannot use anything than RAID 0 because I don't care for fault tolerance and only have 2 drives.
     
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