Need help with Spanning 2 external usb hard drives

gedstar

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Hi All

Just purchase this HornetTek X2-U3 JBOD USB 3.0 (HT-3210U3) - 3.5" DUAL BAY - JBOD - HDD ENCLOSURES

The only reason was because I had a spare 1TB drive and 500GB drive that I wanted to span into one volume, according the product spec it supports JBOD, which from my understanding should allow hard drive spanning, I understand that if one drive goes the data is lost, but that is not a concern of mine as I have numerous backups of my data. The problem is when I try to span 2 disk I get the following error "The operation is not supported by the object"

Here's a screenshot of the drives in question

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Have googled this and haven't been able to find a resolution, any help would be most appreciated

Cheers

Ged
 

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You need to delete the BASIC disk or right click it, and convert them to a dynamic disk. Once you have created the DYNAMIC disk you will or should be able to span the volumes. Hope this helps.
 

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Thanks play2mefish

Forgot to mention already tried that, still get the same error
 

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Cheers MasterChief, will try that driver later and report back
 

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    3 TB Western Digital
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