My system at the moment has 2x1TB disks and 1x500mb disk. I have five partitions for different functions, with my biggest being for video files taking up a whole 1TB disk, which is unfortunately full. I do have plenty of space across the disks which I'd like to use, however I'd prefer not to have to span the logical organisation of files across multiple drive letters - say, going to x:\ for movies and y:\ for TV rips.
What's I'd like to do is have something like having my Video drive letter map to multiple disks - so maybe the Movies subfolder would be mapped to the the 1tb disk, while I could have TV rips on a partition on the second disk but mapped as a subfolder on y:\. Is this possible?
So my options as I see them are:
1) get the above situation working, so the physical location of my files are invisible to me as the user
2) buy a bigger HDD (1.5 - 2TB) and keep upgrading as they fill
3) keep them across multiple disks and multiple drive letter mappings
I remember reading a bit about LVM a while back in Linux however I never found out if/how it worked in Windows.
For reference I'm on Windows 7. Any assistance/suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers.
What's I'd like to do is have something like having my Video drive letter map to multiple disks - so maybe the Movies subfolder would be mapped to the the 1tb disk, while I could have TV rips on a partition on the second disk but mapped as a subfolder on y:\. Is this possible?
So my options as I see them are:
1) get the above situation working, so the physical location of my files are invisible to me as the user
2) buy a bigger HDD (1.5 - 2TB) and keep upgrading as they fill
3) keep them across multiple disks and multiple drive letter mappings
I remember reading a bit about LVM a while back in Linux however I never found out if/how it worked in Windows.
For reference I'm on Windows 7. Any assistance/suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers.