Recent content by jamesdodd

I never said it was "bugging the heck out of me" Its a slight annoyance that if I can resolve I will, but I'm not willing to spend loads of money... The PCI SATA raid controller will more than likely be a software raid solution for the price its at. Similar to something like NvRaid which isn't...

really can't be spending money on more disks and controllers... Its not the sort of project we can just chuck money at as I keep saying a cheap raid controller card would end up being software and be pretty pointless... I think I'm going to look towards linux anyway (we've moved most of our...

like I said it isn't a risk the data isn't that important... we have other systems with integral data on it and using a raid 5 system for this isn't justifiable I'm talking archives... stuff that exists on disks and tapes and stuff and is rarely used at all... its an extra to have it on disk...

lwcomputing: Were covered for backups etc, and the data isn't in a situation where accessability is required on a daily basis, were talking huge archives that might be needed. It just doesn't seem to justifiable to spend £1000 on new HDD's and raid especially considering that we have used over...

lwcomputing: as i mentioned in my post I'm presently using juntions aka symbolic links the problem with these is that although I can mount drives as folders there is no way that I can merge it so that 2 drives could be mounted into the same folder... drew1701d: I think this applies to DFS to...

I have a series of files spanned over several HDD's in the same server. I really need to consolidate these HDD's into one. These drives have been purchased over the last few years as needs have expanded. We're presently using junction tool to create symbolic links but having this like dated...