Add another hard drive for WMC recording tv

[sdowney717]

If I do that, will it record to both drives?
Say I have a 1 TB drive half full
I add a second 1 TB drive.

I go into setup and tell WMC to record to the new drive, will it fill up the old drive and also fill up the new drive?

Or will it ignore the old drive?

Anyway to get to use both for recording live tv? Without me changing the setup.
Would be a waste of space if WMC ignores one of the drives for managing recordings by itself.

IF WMC wont do that, is there way to make windows look at 2 drives as one large drive? Raid? Then just adding more drives is like making the original drive bigger.

[Dkeyguy1]

If I do that, will it record to both drives?
Say I have a 1 TB drive half full
I add a second 1 TB drive.

I go into setup and tell WMC to record to the new drive, will it fill up the old drive and also fill up the new drive?

Or will it ignore the old drive?

Anyway to get to use both for recording live tv? Without me changing the setup.
Would be a waste of space if WMC ignores one of the drives for managing recordings by itself.

IF WMC wont do that, is there way to make windows look at 2 drives as one large drive? Raid? Then just adding more drives is like making the original drive bigger.

Check this out and see if it will do what you want. I used it before and it worked well.
http://exdeus.home.comcast.net/~exdeus/ ... agePooler/

[sdowney717]

Wow, glad I asked.
Looks like it will work. Even to a shared drive.

[barnabas1969]

Another option is to setup the drives as a JBOD array. JBOD does exactly what you want to do... it will fill all the drives as equally as possible.