NASLite Network Attached Storage

I've been using a single hard drive with NL 2.06 for a few months now, and it's been working perfectly.

I just added two additional HDs to expand my media storage. The drives formatted and mounted fine. No problems.

My question, though, is this: I thought that I'd be able to have a share which spans multiple disks, but I can't seem to do it.

I'd like share A to span whichever disks it needs to.

Is this possible? or am I stuck with Disk-1/share A and Disk-2/share B?

thanks
Matt

edit: If I can't do this, perhaps I can ask how others deal with this. What do you do when you have an MP3 or DVD folder, for example, that has grown greater than the space on a HD? How do you span it to another HD?

edit 2: The two new drives are hooked up via a SATA PCI board, which I think supports combining disks. I've never used it, but would something like that work? At least I could combine two of my drives into one.

Replying to my own post...

I tried to concatenate the two drives (in the SATA PCI card), but they are both still seen as independent drives by NL.

Any other thoughts?

Hi Matt,

NL will see individual drives (even the drives that your BIOS will not see) and the only way to make NL see multiple drives as ONE drive (JBOD or RAID) is to have a hardware RAID card compatible with NL. Software RAID cards will NOT do the job.

One solution (which is not really a solution but may help) is to "connect a drive" in Windows on the Share. This way, you have one drive with several "sub directories", one dir for each drive. I didn't try to see what happens if one drive (sub-directory) is full and you try to write on it.

FYI: The way to connect the drive is: network favorites > all the networks > Microsoft Windows network > "your workgroup name" > "your NL server name" > right click on "Shares" and choose "connect a drive"

I have transleted from a french XP so the names may be different.

Regards.

Ah! of course....

Oh well. Guess I'll just have to pay attention to drive space limitations, and move folders around as needed.

Thanks
Matt