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Computers with several HDD's - Why W8.1 might be a good choice
Hi there.
In the general "rubbishing" of W8 ( we need now to consider W8.1 as it's the current version) a few really interesting features have been seriously overlooked.
For instance if you have several volumes (especially good say if you have 4 or 5 HDD's of 250 - 400 GB each you can aggregate them all into a single volume known as a STORAGE SPACE. (You can aggregate several POOLS of volumes too if you want to have more than 1 storage space).
This is infinitely better than the W7 SPANNED volume system (similar but an extension of it).
Many music / video libraries grow and usually these have problems when a volume gets full up. Using Storage spaces means the whole "space" is treated as a single volume so your 5 X 250 GB HDD's can be treated as a single 1.2 TB drive - windows just sees it as a single volume.
What's more - if you need to ADD more volumes this can be done DYNAMICALLY - you don't need to clean everything out and start again.
IMO an excellent and overlooked feature.
W8.1 isn't all bad BTW - I wish W7 actually had this feature in it - it's much easier than having zillions of volumes.
(You can also add USB HDD's to a storage pool too - although if you do that you'll need to have them all connected when you need to access that particular storage pool).
Cheers
jimbo