So does a 1.5 terabtye drive appear as one drive in Windows even when it's just two 750GB drives in a case?
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Would this show up as one logical drive letter (such as drive G:) under My Computer (and show approx. 1.5 TB available) or would it just list it out as two separate drives?
Answers:
Raid 0 will show up as 1.5 TB of storage on 1 drive.
RAID can set two drives as one drive.
it really depends on how they are setup. they can be setup to show as 1.5 or as 750 + 750. you can consult the manual before you install them or call the manufacturers technical support department for the exact details.
Depends how it is set up.
As a RAID mirror it will appear as 1 x 750Mb disk drive... but your data will survive the failure of a disk drive as the drives are mirrored.
As a RAID stripe set it will appear as a single 1.5Tb disk drive. there is no protection against drive failure though.
If it has JBOD capability, it will look like 2 x 750Gb disks.
If the box contains any fancier software (I don't click on links... who knows if they take you where you expect to go) it may allow you to chop the disk space up into other ways... like seeming to be 3 x 500Gb disks or 3 x 250Gb disks (with mirror copies)...
How it appears is all in the setup.
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