Windows 10: Can you combine external drives into a MEGA external drive?

I have an external hard drive that I connect to my router and I back up important files to. But I'm reaching the external hard drive's limit. I was wondering if I could combine several external hard drives so they act like one huge mega hard drive. *Smile

I was doing some research on the internet. I don't have the money to waste on a NAS. I'm not sure what a spanned volume is but it looks like you'll need a spare case and operating system to sort of put them together. I have an old Window XP OS but I'm assuming that would slow down the connection if I connect it to the network, right?

Can one of you experts just tell me the best way to get this done. It seems simple.

Is there just a simple way to stack a lot of external hard drives together in an old spare computer case, arrange them in RAID, and simply act as a huge external hard drive. So, the cost would only be the external hard drives themselves. For example, get like twenty 1 Tb hard drive and connect them together with RAID 10 so it's ultra safe?

:)

 

Loss of External drives

Hi,

For better assistance, kindly verify the queries below:

• What is the make and model of the external drives?
• Have you checked if both drivers are recognized on the BIOS settings?
• Are you connecting the external hard drives via USB?
• What are the troubleshooting steps have you done so far for this issue?

Looking forward to your response.

Regards.

 

Unable to use External Hard Drives

Hi Stephen,

To help you resolve the issue with your external hard drive, we'd like to ask the following questions:

• Have you checking if the issue happens on a different computer?
  
• Have you tried a different external hard drive on the same computer?
• Is there any error that is popping up upon inserting the hard drive?

Let us know so we can further help.

Thank you.