Is it possible to RAID one drive with a partition with another drive?

[50]

Allright here's my dilemma, I have a seagate 7200.10 320gb. I originally purchased the 1TB from mwave and thought I'll use the 320gb for my OS and the 1TB for media, but it got cancelled. I just purchased a WD black 640gb. I want to have one drive for media and one for the OS. Is it possible for me to partition the 640 gb to 140gb for the OS/apps and the 500gb + 320gb other drive as a RAID and another drive? Thanks

 

[50]

Anyone?

 

[Elixer]

If you want...though, I am not sure why you would want to, at least, not the way your talking about.

Which flavor RAID we talking about?

 

[RebateMonger]

Windows software RAID can do this, but not any hardware RAID controllers that I'm aware of. The hardware controllers (including the built-in ones on motherboards) only RAID entire DISKS (as in that two-pound 4x6 inch piece of hardware).

 

[CoinOperatedBoy]

OP, some clarification might be helpful. I'm also not seeing how this would be of any practical use. It sounds like you want a primary system partition and you want to stripe all the rest of your space for storage. This is a bad idea. If either drive fails, you will lose the entire logical storage partition. Better to leave them as separate volumes.

 

[50]

Well I have two main goals with these two drives. 1) I want to have all of my media in one central location. 2) I would like to have my applications and OS running on my fastest hard drive (640gb WD black). What is the best way to do this? It would be a lot easier if my 320gb drive was faster.

 

[CoinOperatedBoy]

Not many options unless you get a bigger drive for media storage. Just install your OS and applications on the 640GB and use the 320GB for media until it's getting too full, then spring for that 1TB you had cancelled... Or throw everything on the 640GB and make incremental backups of your media to the 320GB until you need something bigger. Safer than the RAID, anyway. How much space do you really need right now?