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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1289580" data-attributes="member: 141969">I use Stablebit's &quot;Drivepool&quot; product (not free) to make multiple separate disks appear as a single drive letter. However, I do this for the &quot;Videos&quot; section in MP, and not the &quot;Recorded TV&quot; section. But that is just my choice -- it is not a limitation of &quot;Drivepool&quot;, so I think that you could use it as you want.Drivepool attempts to distribute files evenly across all of the disks in the pool. The consequence of this is that related files may be placed on different physical disks. For example, the TS file for a recording might be placed on disk &quot;X&quot;, the JPG file on disk &quot;Y&quot;, and the XML file on disk &quot;Z&quot;. However, this matters only if you decide to stop using Drivepool, when you would need manually to re-arrange the files. Drivepool does support different file-placement algorithms, but I have not tried any of those.The only problem that I have had with Drivepool was one of my USB disks disappearing from the pool occasionally when I used a particular setting. I think that this was caused by the USB disk powering down when not accessed for several minutes, and not being able to power up quickly enough when Drivepool needed to access it. Using a different value for that setting has prevented this problem recurring.An alternative to Drivepool is Drive Bender, but I have no experience of that.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1289580, member: 141969"] I use Stablebit's "Drivepool" product (not free) to make multiple separate disks appear as a single drive letter. However, I do this for the "Videos" section in MP, and not the "Recorded TV" section. But that is just my choice -- it is not a limitation of "Drivepool", so I think that you could use it as you want. Drivepool attempts to distribute files evenly across all of the disks in the pool. The consequence of this is that related files may be placed on different physical disks. For example, the TS file for a recording might be placed on disk "X", the JPG file on disk "Y", and the XML file on disk "Z". However, this matters only if you decide to [i]stop[/i] using Drivepool, when you would need manually to re-arrange the files. Drivepool does support different file-placement algorithms, but I have not tried any of those. The only problem that I have had with Drivepool was one of my USB disks disappearing from the pool occasionally when I used a particular setting. I think that this was caused by the USB disk powering down when not accessed for several minutes, and not being able to power up quickly enough when Drivepool needed to access it. Using a different value for that setting has prevented this problem recurring. An alternative to Drivepool is Drive Bender, but I have no experience of that. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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