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Using Windows 7, I'm trying to setup what I've come to call a "Software Raid of Folders", not completely sure it's the right term, but I'm sure anyone who knows the true term will understand what I'm getting at.
I have two folders, on two seperate harddrive, I would like to "merge" these folders while keeping them on seperate harddrive so they act as one folder. Example:
Music and Videos are to be merged together to a new folder called "Merged"
Music runs off of Harddrive 1
Videos runs off of Harddrive 2
Anything new saved inside Merged is saved within Videos that runs off of Harddrive 2
Now you see how I came up with the term "Software Raid", it's like an average RAID 0 setup, but instead I want to do it with just two specific folders on two different drives within Windows. Any help on this is apprecieated!
2Why will new things be saved on Harddrive 2 as opposed to Harddrive 1? I think software raid is a bad analogy here. – aland – 2013-03-30T14:27:40.030
This sounds an awful lot like 7's in-built "Libraries". Why not just use those? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-03-30T14:57:38.287
Essentially it's for a Server with a lot of data stored on it, another harddrive was added but they can't reconfigured their hardware RAID. So I'm looking for a software alternative as the software they are using completely works out of one folder. And Libraries? I wasn't aware they were customizable. How would you go about it? – Dustin – 2013-03-30T19:13:40.223
why can't they reconfigure hardware RAID? Seems like a pretty typical operation. – aland – 2013-03-30T19:54:51.257
As far as I knew, it would require a full reinstallation of the server wouldn't it? – Dustin – 2013-03-30T20:24:12.467
Should need a reinstall, but it would depend on the array controller. – aland – 2013-03-30T21:10:44.873
Shouldn't need an install I mean. – aland – 2013-03-30T22:27:11.687