how to put 2 hdd's....?

Question

how can I put 2 hdd's to work together as one hdd ex I have 2 hdd's 80GB working individual how do i have to put the jumpers??

Answer 1

go buy yourself a PCI RAID card, then setup the hard drives as RAID 0. This will create one LARGE partition out of the 2 hard drives, i.e. if you have 2 80 gig HDs, it will be recognized as 1 160gig HD. However, if you have 2 different size HDs, then it will only recognize the size of the smaller drive, i.e. 1 80 gig HD 1 60 gig HD = 1 120GIG partition. The benefit to RAID 0 is the speed, as half the information will be written to one hard drive, and the other half to the other, completing the write time of any given file to half the time. HOWEVER, if one hard drive fails, ALL your information will be lost. Good luck

Answer 2

Don't mess with the jumpers. If you can access both drives (as separate drives) from Windows, the jumpers are fine and there's nothing else you can do there to solve your problem; the answer will be either in the OS or software (or as another person pointed out, a RAID controller).

Answer 3

If you wanna make it as one partition ( all 160 gig as C ) its not possible I guess. Also lemme know if they are SATA or IDE hard drives. I guess you'll have to go with c:\ ( 80 gig ) & D:\ ( 80 gig ) or you can try reinstalling Windows after a complete formating I guess when it'll ask you to select the partition you want to install windows or create over there delete the C & D then the complete 160 gig would be unused space now select that space to install windows then the complete 160 gig will be together as C:\ with you windows installed in it. I have pratically tried it so lemme know if it works. I am running on a Seagate 160 gig SATA ( 7200rpm & 8mb cache )

Answer 4

Apparantly a lot of answerers haven't heard of something called RAID. In your case what you want is RAID 0 or JBOD. In order to run them like this you need to have a RAID controller on your motherboard or a RAID controller installed in your computer, here is a page of them on newegg:http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?in_dim_search=1&N=2010150410&SubCategory=410&Description=raid+controller
If you wanna read more about it, go here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

EDIT: Just so you know they don't have to be the same size to use JBOD, but in your case that is irrelevant as they are the same size.

Answer 5

two hard drives to appear as one. the only way you are going to get that is if you have some sort of RAID array. This would require two or more of the same exact hard drives and soe sort of raid controller.

You are going to have do some research to see what type of RAID array is best for your needs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

Answer 6

you have to get the cable that like gray cable (sorry im tired i forgot the name of it) its inside the compute. get one thats like has 4 input things for the harddrive prongs
2 that are together into another one. so you can put 2 harddrives together and go into 1 cord. or you just change it from a slave to something else. reaed the label or go to goolge. sorry i coulednt be more helP!

Answer 7

I did that on my wife's parent's computer but just left them as 2 separate drives... I thought I was a neat freak, does it really matter if you connect them as one drive for your computer??? Either way you'll have the same space, just 2 different drives on your computer. (C and D--depending on the existing drives if you have any.)

Answer 8

You can't. There's no way you can put two separate HD to work as one unless you designate the other one as mirror and it must be SATA.

Answer 9

I don't believe you can combined two hard drives to act as just one.

Answer 10

you have to have a RAID card to do that you have to add it in the PCI slot on your mobo if you want that if there arn't SATA