Software raid?

[EvanB]

What is the best way, without actually raiding the drives, to have windows see 4 drives as one large drive, just for the purpose of convienence?

Is there some sort of software raid that can be used to achieve such a thing?

Ex:

4 250gb drives (C: J: K: L

I want them to appear as one drive to windows and programs run under windows, i.e.:

1 1tb drive (C

Thanks in advance!

 

[cubby1223]

jbod raid controller

 

[Looney]

Yes, if you're using XP, you can set it as RAID0 or RAID5 (that requires a little hacking... but do a google search, and it'll take less than 2mins).

I would recommend RAID5. That would combine 3 drives into one, and use the 4th as a parity drive. RAID0 is stupid for 1TB imo (if a single drive fails, you're going to lose all the data).