TheCommoner
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- Jul 27, 2014
Hey everyone,
I use Windows mainly as gaming machine. Therefore, my deep technical knowledge is mostly hypothetical and most often imaginary. Yet I am looking for something that may turn out as extremly complicated to handle, but maybe it'll work.
So, what I do want, I want to group my two hard drives to one. The first one is a SSD 128GB, the second one is a standard magnetic drive 1TB. I want to do that, so that the absolute pathes and entries in regedit stay the same and are independent of the drive the files are physically on.
Then I want it controllable. Some application in which I can select a folder and tell my system on which drive it physically is. Something like defragmentation, just between two hard drives.
My goal. My goal is it to not have to uninstall my games all few days in order to get a new game on my SSD, I simply want to check a game folder like C:\Games\Batman - Origins and move it to my magnetic drive to make storage to move another game like C:\Games\Assassin's Creed - Black Flag to my SSD, without changing the path and therefore the need to reinstall.
I just tried to realise it using hard links, but hard links are limited. No folders and also not between different drives. So I guess, it must be some sort of Logic Volume Group. I know, it is theoretically possible, Apple does something very similar with Fusion Drives, but I have no idea how to start.
Any ideas or hints? (Also manuals and how to's are appreciated )
-TheCommoner
I use Windows mainly as gaming machine. Therefore, my deep technical knowledge is mostly hypothetical and most often imaginary. Yet I am looking for something that may turn out as extremly complicated to handle, but maybe it'll work.
So, what I do want, I want to group my two hard drives to one. The first one is a SSD 128GB, the second one is a standard magnetic drive 1TB. I want to do that, so that the absolute pathes and entries in regedit stay the same and are independent of the drive the files are physically on.
Then I want it controllable. Some application in which I can select a folder and tell my system on which drive it physically is. Something like defragmentation, just between two hard drives.
My goal. My goal is it to not have to uninstall my games all few days in order to get a new game on my SSD, I simply want to check a game folder like C:\Games\Batman - Origins and move it to my magnetic drive to make storage to move another game like C:\Games\Assassin's Creed - Black Flag to my SSD, without changing the path and therefore the need to reinstall.
I just tried to realise it using hard links, but hard links are limited. No folders and also not between different drives. So I guess, it must be some sort of Logic Volume Group. I know, it is theoretically possible, Apple does something very similar with Fusion Drives, but I have no idea how to start.
Any ideas or hints? (Also manuals and how to's are appreciated )
-TheCommoner
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