Want to combine 2 drives as 1.5T and add another 1.5T Raid1 Possible?

[gexamb]

Hey guys, i am taking a long shot here but I was wondering what your opinions are regarding my planned project.

I have a 1 T drive and a 500GB drive. The 1 T is WD Caviar Black and the 500Gb is a Seagate Barracuda. I was wondering if it is possible to combine the 1 T and 500GB drives as one. That would give me 1.5 T and I can buy another 1.5T drive and put them in a raid 1 setup. is this possible?

I want more storage space and 1 T is not enough I dont want to buy 2 1.5T drives if I can buy only one. This is will only be strictly for storage and I am planning on getting an OCZ Vertex 60Gb SSD for my OS drive.

So is it possible to combine 2 drives as 1 and add another one for raid 1?

500GB + 1 T = 1.5T
Buy 1 more 1.5T= 1.5T

 

[LNCPapa]

I don't think you can do that - Adding the 1TB to the .5TB isn't difficult - that's JBOD. JBOD isn't even really RAID - it stands for Just a Bunch Of Disks. I don't think you can take JBOD and mix it in with RAID 0 - in fact, I'm not sure if you can even nest JBOD.

 

[gexamb]

crap, is that the final answer?

 

[raybay]

It can be done... if your hard ware has the space, the cooling systems, and the power supply.

 

[gexamb]

check, check, and check. but how?

 

[WinXPert]

Physically impossible because you have 2 physical drives to begin with.

 

[gexamb]

what do you mean by that? essentially there will be 3 drives. 2 acting as 1 and another 1 together in raid 1.