On 3/3/05 11:42 AM, "Onno Benschop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Navid Mavaddat wrote:
>
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone was aware of a way to create a 'virtual
>> folder' over multiple drives. My itunes folder is in excess of 170GB
>> (lossless compressed from my CD collection) and soon it will be larger
>> than the 200GB drive.
>>
>> I am considering getting a 250GB drive, but I can see this will only
>> ultimately be an interim measure. If I could span over multiple drives
>> this would save much hassle. Currently I can't consolidate the
>> library. I tried relocating 50GB off the drive, but it still wouldn't
>> let me consolidate it.
>
>
> Without actually having done this, you should be able to create a raid
> array from multiple drives, then stick your iTunes folder on the new
> raid volume. (And you get redundancy for free :-)
>
> I'm not sure how much you know about how this works, but at a system
> level you can combine multiple drives into one logical volume, that
> shows up as one place to store stuff. This is what geeks with too much
> time on their hands did when they created a raid array on floppy disks
> and across several iPods.
>
>
> Cheers,
Disk Utility in OS X has the ability to make a software raid. As for
hardware, either a card or an Xserve raid box ;-)
Seeya
Rod!
