Media center seperate hardrive(s) question for videos

[michaelhinchey]

I am currently maxed out on my 2 tb harddrive and would like to add another harddrive. However, inside video library tab I do not want to have two seperate movie folders. How do I point Media center to add both of those folders into one larger folder.
I thought about doing a raid 0 or jbod setup but I dont want to lose my data if one goes. I understand in jbod they are less likely to lose all data but the risk is still there. Any suggestions would be great?

 

[Sardonicus]

I haven't seen a way to do it in Videos, without the folder views showing up.

 

[michaelhinchey]

Think im gonna use media browser instead because they allow nesting of folders!! This would be nice if windows included it too!!

 

[whs]

You could explore the possibilities with a spanned, dynamic drive.

 

[michaelhinchey]

I dont think I like the downsides to having a spanned volume. LIke having to deal with one of the harddrives crashing. I realize that the chances of boot failure is less than a raid 0 but the chance is still there that all volumes across the hardrives could become corrupt. Also, I have a external sata swap drive so I like to be able to pull the drive out and replace it when I need another one of my drives. Was gonna use all 4 bays with 2 tb harrdrives(maxes out) but then swap out when I needed another one of my drives for something else!

 

[whs]

Understand. Your plan sounds good - although a little unusual.

 

[zay]

I replied to this in another post, but if I understand what you wish to accomplish, you can solve this by using a .vf file. You place the .vf file in your libraries\videos folder as well as your C:\ProgramData\MediaBrowser\StartupFolder folder. Open notepad and make your entries replacing what I pasted below to matach your drive locations. You MUST put the trailing slash as well.
image: C:\Users\Owner\Videos\movies.jpg
folder: C:\Users\Owner\Videos\
folder: C:\Users\Owner\Videos\TV Shows\
sortorder: 000