So, with my ever-growing Apple Lossless music collection, my current external HD's space gets less and less every week, and I already know, judging from the piles of CDs not yet encoded, that one drive isn't enough.
I think about getting myself a second HD and combine both into a concatenated RAID. The speed loss compared against a "true", striped RAID doesn't bother me, since all the drive's gonna do is streaming music and videos. The loss of redundancy is just a minor issue as well, since it's no important data that could get lost - just painful to re-encode again.
However, I couldn't find any information about whether setting up a concatenated RAID will erase the inital HD I started with (my current music collection) or if the new HD is simply added to the existing one. I know you can add more drives once the array is running, but around that time, the concatenated RAID would already be set up.
Thanks for your time.
I think about getting myself a second HD and combine both into a concatenated RAID. The speed loss compared against a "true", striped RAID doesn't bother me, since all the drive's gonna do is streaming music and videos. The loss of redundancy is just a minor issue as well, since it's no important data that could get lost - just painful to re-encode again.
However, I couldn't find any information about whether setting up a concatenated RAID will erase the inital HD I started with (my current music collection) or if the new HD is simply added to the existing one. I know you can add more drives once the array is running, but around that time, the concatenated RAID would already be set up.
Thanks for your time.