Combine hard drives to make a MEGA HARD DRIVE? Possible?

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  1. cereberus
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    Clintlgm said:
    Yes for us that remember our first 1 GB hard drives it is amazing how cheap storage has become.
    I remember my first ever 20MB (yes MB) hard drive, the size of a small suitcase - lol.
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  3. RoasterMen
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    Geneo said:
    Just get a 4-6 TB HDD. You can't do RAID with USB external drives, only internal. The only reason to do RAID internally is for performance (RAID 0) or redundancy (RAID 1). sounds ike you need neither so just get a large HDD and put it in an external USB 3.0 enclosure.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ
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  4. Plankton
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    The only reason to do RAID internally is for performance (RAID 0) or redundancy (RAID 1)
    No, not entirely true. Some of us like to make use of our extra HDD's by combining them into 1 single drive.......the type of RAID is optional for us. So we don't have to go out a buy "another" hard drive.

    For me personally, I like to use RAID 0 with my 4 1TB HDD's for the exact reason the OP wants to....to make 1 single drive. The benefits (performance increase) of RAID 0 is just a bonus.
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  6. Geneo
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    Plankton said:
    No, not entirely true. Some of us like to make use of our extra HDD's by combining them into 1 single drive.......the type of RAID is optional for us. So we don't have to go out a buy "another" hard drive.

    For me personally, I like to use RAID 0 with my 4 1TB HDD's for the exact reason the OP wants to....to make 1 single drive. The benefits (performance increase) of RAID 0 is just a bonus.
    You are talking about jbod - disks grouped together as a single volume. This is not RAID, so I stand by my statement
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