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Answer» I'm still learning about pc's, and there is much more to be learned I think. My current question is: Can I join a 40 gig and a 20 gig hard drive and use them as one? No slave drive! If this can be done, I would be incredibly grateful to the PERSON who told me how! Quote Can I join a 40 gig and a 20 gig hard drive and use them as one? No. Separate hard drives can not be recognized as a single UNIT; one is always master, the other always slave.Ppl keep talking about "raid". They say it involves joining two hard drives as one. You ever hear of this term? Yes, RAID will recognize two hard drives as a single entity, but they need to be identical drives. There are a number of things you need to consider before going this route. Start here: http://www.techworthy.com/PCUpgrade/JulyAug2004/Setting-Up-An-ATA-RAID-Array.htm?Page=1 ... and get some additional advice from other users here who have more experience than I do in this area. You may consider not usin the 20GB at all as this could/would slow your system down. the specs on 40gb is faster and better then the 20gb. If you have master / slave setup on the same flat cable, then I garuantee you a slower performance. Try setting up Two masters DEVICES on two seperate cables. Place your DVD/CD devices as secondaries. To join them. NO, NOT possible. I would not even LOOK at a software mirror solution either. Must be identical drives.

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I'm still learning about pc's, and there is much more to be learned I think. My current question is: Can I join a 40 gig and a 20 gig hard drive and use them as one? No slave drive! If this can be done, I would be incredibly grateful to the PERSON who told me how! Quote

Can I join a 40 gig and a 20 gig hard drive and use them as one?

No. Separate hard drives can not be recognized as a single UNIT; one is always master, the other always slave.Ppl keep talking about "raid". They say it involves joining two hard drives as one. You ever hear of this term?
Yes, RAID will recognize two hard drives as a single entity, but they need to be identical drives. There are a number of things you need to consider before going this route. Start here:

http://www.techworthy.com/PCUpgrade/JulyAug2004/Setting-Up-An-ATA-RAID-Array.htm?Page=1

... and get some additional advice from other users here who have more experience than I do in this area.
You may consider not usin the 20GB at all as this could/would slow your system down.

the specs on 40gb is faster and better then the 20gb.
If you have master / slave setup on the same flat cable, then I garuantee you a slower performance.
Try setting up Two masters DEVICES on two seperate cables. Place your DVD/CD devices as secondaries.

To join them. NO, NOT possible. I would not even LOOK at a software mirror solution either. Must be identical drives.

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