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can you "raid" a drive with a folder on another drive?

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tommo123

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i know in drive management you can mount a drive within a folder on another drive but dont think that will work with what i want to do.

ok, i have gone nuts on steams sales recently and am almost at the limit of my raided 74GB raptors (138GB real). when i buy a game that'll put me over the drives capactity, is there a way to essentially expand into a folder on another drive?

like a virtual raid if you will?
 
I don't think it'll work exactly how you want. You can mount a secondary drive into a directory on an NTFS volume, but that directory will still only have the amount of space as the secondary drive and the drive hosting the directory will be unaffected as well.
 
There's also a few more options -- none quite like you want but still options nonetheless.

1. If you have an appropriate version of Windows, you can convert the Raptors + other disk(s) to Dynamic disks, and then span the partition between disks so you have one larger logical drive. This will act somewhat like you're asking, though for the entire drive rather than just a folder. This does shoehorn you into a handful of versions of Windows and mostly block you out of any other OS, and can muck around with your performance if you use a slower drive(s) compared to your raptors.

2. Manually set up symlinks (junctions in Windows) so that certain games are stored on another drive physically, but logically they're accessed right from the Steam folder. Note that SteamMover (I think that's the name) is an app that'll move Steam games and create the links for you rather than you having to manually use the mklink command.
 
ta for the info guys 🙂

prob is? right now after all those deals, i've got around 190GB worth of data in my steam folder so not just a little over the 140gig limit of 2 raptors.

gonna just leave it on a 2TB drive i think and sell the raptors 😱

got 3 74GB rappies sitting there now doing nothing.
 
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