I was just wondering if there are any downsides to extending my C drive with my second ssd or should I just create a new partition.
I’m not sure if it’s possible in Windows to span the system partition across multiple disks.
In either case, I don’t recommend doing spanned drives anyways. Create a separate partition with a new drive letter. If you are going to have multiple disks involved for redundancy or speed purposes, then you can do that when creating it with Storage Spaces or a RAID controller or similar.
So this wouldn’t be for redundancy or speed. I will have two nvme and I dont think my x570 Taichi supports raid on those. The documentation says only the sata 3 supports raid. I was just thinking I would do it just to simplify things and wasn’t sure what the down sides (if any) were.
Using the built in raid on your board is doable but you’ll have to reinstall windows.
Not really, I did Intel/AMD raid without reinstall many times. But its not for beginners. You can also disassemble both, and still keep OS and data. But it requires physical layout knowledge, partitioning tools, manual driver installation etc.
So you can do it for sport, but usually backup/reinstall is just faster.
However I strongly advise against using AMD raid. It’s real garbage compared to Intel’s IRST.
Also since Windows 10 (Pro I think) you can make “Storage spaces”, which is MS take on semi software raid.
Also also, I think I’ve read somewhere someone made mdadm work with WSL, but not sure. Because that would be my first idea, if I ever got back to windows.
you cant do that.
windows wont let you extend beyond the capacity of the drive.
if you want to add another drive you can raid it, but as above says you would have to re-install windows.
so yeah probably the best option is just add another drive on its own and just use it as storage.
Did you come in here to just ahckchyually my post with nonsense? Knock it off.
Not really.
I didn’t even read who wrote it. And I supported your stance at the end. So not sure what the problem is? More facts?
If someone later comes along, who’s raid crapped out, he might see that he can recover data from it.
Also my main point was not to use onboard AMD raid. That’s why I wrote post in the first place, rest just happened.
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