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James_DT |
posted on 30th Mar 09 at 23:36 |
quote: Not since Vista. Vista brought support for NTFS symbolic links. Obviously using XP though, Junctions are the only way. | |
Toby |
posted on 30th Mar 09 at 12:56 |
to be honest i would just use them as a RAID, so much easier and probably cheaper as a intenral HDD is much cheaper than a External.Ive just bought a 2tb WD green HDD for my media player and its great, slower drive so less heat and noise, cant complain | |
PaulW |
posted on 29th Mar 09 at 23:36 |
quote: Symbolic links (ln -s) are linux only... Windows refers to them as Junctions, and thats what has been mentioned above in regards to mapping a drive to a folder using the disk management console. | |
James_DT |
posted on 29th Mar 09 at 22:19 |
Symbolic links would also work. | |
PaulW |
posted on 29th Mar 09 at 10:56 |
Yes that is possible | |
xa0s |
posted on 29th Mar 09 at 09:53 |
Alright, so if I buy 2-4 1tB external USB HDD's, can I plug them all in and map them to: | |
Dom |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 21:34 |
If you had Windows Server you could use software raid and span across multiple drives (so it'd show up as a single drive) - although i think you'd need to store the data somewhere whilst creating the raid, plus if one dies it takes the whole lot with it. | |
PaulW |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:22 |
quote: You won't be able to extend a single folder though, just create the new drive as a folder inside another... http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/19/how-to-mount-and-access-new-partition-volume-or-drive-as-folder-path-in-windows/ | |
xa0s |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:18 |
quote: Sounds good. Any more info? | |
oceansoul |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:14 |
i might be wrong here. but cant you just create a new folder and put shortcuts to your movies in that folder. then you can start filling up your external hard drive, and have a shortcut in your new folder (with shortcuts to the films on your original 1tb drive) to them movies. | |
PaulW |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:08 |
quote: where will he put the existing data though for when he sets up the raid... | |
PaulW |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:07 |
quote: from how I read the original post, he wants to span a single folder/partition map over multiple drives. As he said "use the same folder" | |
Doug |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:44 |
Can you not just get another 1TB drive and raid them? | |
John |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:38 |
There's a way in windows to map folders across different drives, would work in the way you want it. | |
PaulW |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:23 |
then no. the only way to have it in a folder is go into drive management and then tell it to mount into a folder. | |
xa0s |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:14 |
quote: No, just a Windows box in the loft to store everything on. It's also used as a web server too. | |
PaulW |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 10:28 |
If your using Linux, you can use LVM2 to create an expandable filesystem | |
Leighton |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 10:25 |
when you say server, are you running a server OS ? | |
xa0s |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:43 |
What kind of question is that? | |
Balling |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:33 |
I don't know of any way to do this. As far as I know, it's not possible. | |
xa0s |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:22 |
Just had an idea. Would it be possible to make a folder, and when you open that folder the files from both two different locations appear? Is there a Windows application that allows this at all? | |
xa0s |
posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:21 |
Is there anyway to plug an external HDD into my server and have the space 'added on' to my original HDD? |