Hey,
Just wondering is spanning my external drive to another internal drive is recommended and safe?
Cheers,
Joronamo.
Just wondering is spanning my external drive to another internal drive is recommended and safe?
Cheers,
Joronamo.
Disk Spanning
- Thread starter saterob
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Don't do that. I believ it is possible but it's pointless. just use it as a separate storage device. It's safer and easier that way.
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OldBloke
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Like GW2 said, it just isn't worth it.
During the conversion you would lose all the data on both disks. After the conversion you can save files on the new spanned volume but if anything goes wrong it will be much harder to fix than if you were using them as ordinary disks. For example you won't be able to connect the disks to another PC to read your files from them.
During the conversion you would lose all the data on both disks. After the conversion you can save files on the new spanned volume but if anything goes wrong it will be much harder to fix than if you were using them as ordinary disks. For example you won't be able to connect the disks to another PC to read your files from them.
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