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Combine NVME drives?
Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question but Is it possible to take two 2tb nvme drives and combine them to display a single 4tb drive in windows?
They would be the exact same drive.
Combine NVME drives?
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Posts : 5,048 Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.New #2
Hi.
Two methods that I came across:
How to combine multiple hard drives into one volume on Windows 10 | Windows Central
How to Combine Multiple Hard Drives With Windows' Storage Spaces | PCMag
There are pluses and minuses in doing either. Many similarities.
Hope this helps.
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What would be the best route for games?
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It would be Raid 0 Stripped Volume. If your MB supports Hardware raid use that instead of Software Raid.
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Combining drives is usually for business users looking for redundancy. If that is your aim then you end up halving capacity in effect.
If you combine then like you say, you could end up with a mess if one of the drives fails.
In order to advise the best option, you need to define WHY you want to have a common drive?
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I want to combine the drives for Media and games. One pair would be 4tb of movies/tv shows and the 2nd pair would be 4tb of games. I'd like to keep it simple and not have 6 separate drives or spend the extra $150-$200 just to have a single 4tb or 8tb drive all in one.
I'm ok with a little risk. All 4 2TB drives are brand new so the risk level is low. If I lose the games or movies, no big deal.
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If your MB support RAID configuration on BIOS, you can make a RAID 0 array. This combines two drives as one. Data is split ed into the two drives increasing speed resulting in one drive faster than a single one.
The issue is that if you have a drive fail in one drive you loose ALL your data. Backup is mandatory on a RAID 0 array.
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I have NVMe drives, but I also added a 2TB standard SATA SSD to my machine to house games. Games are huge and chew up space. But honestly, there isn't hardly any noticeable difference between the game loading from my NVMe or my SSD. Considering my NVME reads at 7,000MB/sec and my SATA SSD is about 530MB/sec...you would expect to see a pretty significant difference, but I assure you that it's practically identical. Without about 2-5%
As stated above, you can RAID them on the mobo, or make a RAID within Windows to present just a single drive for simplicity.
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I agree, I suggested a stripped Volume More because it will spread the wear more equally on the drives than a spanned volume. Which is key, using raid0 for acceleration and trying to max longevity at the same time.
Use Enterprise grade support... I have a 4x4 TB (WD Raid Edition) span on my media server and the day a drive will fail.
Will be the day to start a new movie collection. You can still clone a failing drive and replace it in the array, if you keep an eye on them and catch them before they fail... At the moment I never lost a thing on a raid0 volume and migrated that array once from Seagate SV35 drives. and added one WD after without problems.
The only thing I got backed up: Is My Music... This is simply too long to redo.
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