RE: Adding drives to my Media Server

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... I'm pretty certain that in the past I have recovered data from a
drive that was in a simple spaned volume where one of the disks failed... 
- It was quite a long time ago, and I can't remember what version of
windows it was, so things may have changed since then... - Actually, given
my age / memory state these days, I suppose it is even possible that the
volume was supported by a hardware controller in JBOD mode rather than by
Windows in-built disk management, and I've long since forgotten about it...

Whatever the truth, it's probably not worth using this potential feature as
a recovery strategy!....

Paul G.


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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Dean Smith
Sent: Fri 20/01/2006 13:54
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Adding drives to my Media Server



No - with a spanned volume you lose all concept of the individual drives.
If you lose 1 drive - you lose the whole volume.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Ryley
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Adding drives to my Media Server


Paul

Thanks for the info, I think the way to go is to make a spanned volume
so I end up with a 320Gb volume.   Is there any way to force the OS to
put some files on a particular drive? It would be nice to guarantee that
the Ghost of my windows install is definitely on a different physical
drive...

Everything important on the pictures and music front is already backed
up and stored elsewhere.  You only make that mistake once...

Simon


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