Hi Harry,

Much depends on operating system and how the drives are
configured.  Your first sentence suggests that the two
drives are indeed configured as one large drive, in which
case they will work just like one very large single drive.

I have to say from a personal point of view that this is a
risky configuration.  If one drive goes down, you may well
loose the whole system.  In these circumstances backup are
absolutely vital.  Better still might be to "mirror" the
drives.  This is where data is copied, or "mirrored", to an
identical drive.  If one of the drives fails, you are
warned, but data remains intact on the good drive.

I hasten to add that this is usually a process done on a
proper file server.

George.

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Hi all,
I've got a line on a desktop for a client, but, it has a
huge huge hard drive, but what it really is, is 2 hard
drives on the same machine.
My question is, when he fills that first drive up, will new
data automatically be transfered over to the new one, or,
will he get a message like, "your hard drive is filled,
please put these new files on the other hard drive".
I'm only familiar with computers that have 1 hard drive, not
2 hard drives, so, if someone could shed some light on this
for me, I'd absolutely love it.
thanks,
Harry


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