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- September 27th, 2005, 05:04 AM #1
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"Dynamic Disks" on OSX 10.4
Hey Guys,
I've got a few 100 - 200 gig external HDD that I would LOVE to 'merge' into a single disk on OSX... I know this kind of thing can be done on a windows machine [ with Dynamic Disk formatting ] but I haven't been able to find anything on this topic for OSX's...
Is this kinda thing posible?
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- September 27th, 2005, 09:16 AM #2
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- September 27th, 2005, 09:30 AM #3
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[ I may be completely wrong on this ] but isn't RAID used to mirror and create similtanious copies of disks for peformance enhancements?
or can you set it up to create 'single partitions' out of multiple hdd's??
- September 27th, 2005, 09:51 AM #4
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It does both, RAID 0 is to merge disks, RAID 1 is to mirror them.
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- September 27th, 2005, 12:05 PM #5
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RAID 0 will do what you are saying, but doesn't dynamic disks not require all disks to be on? RAID Would require both disks on all the time.
- September 27th, 2005, 05:48 PM #6
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Cool !!
Thats fine - I knew Dynamic disks worked ok because I had set it up before in my last job - but I RAID is 100% ok for what I want to do !
Cheers guys !
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