Re: [REPOST] External drive caddies.

["Wayne" <wayne@xxxxxxx>]

Dudes!
I am guessing you need to have a dynaic disk so you can grow raid sets
accross it?
Heres an idea - dont use raid - use subdirs (ok if you need disk resiliance
stop here...)? instead of mounting each disk to a drive letter - mount it
as
a subdir from another disk.

c:\ (your boot/system disk)

c:\drive1\  (disk2)
c:\drive2\  (disk3)
.
.
.
or even
c:\Movies\a-b\  (disk2)
c:\Movies\c-f\  (disk3)
.
.
.

or am i just on another planet :)

Wayne.
www.planetWayne.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [REPOST] External drive caddies.


>
> > What if you make the partitions on an onboard controller then
> > move the drive to
> > the external box?
>
> No idea but that would mean taking the server up and down to insert
and
> remove drives ... I think it is probably possible to just mount an
external
> drive in an existing directory (I'm sure I saw an option for that
somewhere)
> and that may be what I'm after.
>
> Basically I just want to be able to add storage to my media server as
> required and USB2 / Firewire would seem to be a good way to do it if
> possible.
>
> Phil
>
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