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Is there any software that will allow one to raid 0 multiple partitions together on one drive?
 


All I have to say to this is REALLY? after all that arguing and fighting and dismissing correct answers, you could have just explained that this is what you wanted to do, which is NOT USING HARD DRIVES, but instead of just answering some questions you had to be antagonistic to everyone here who wanted to figure out what you are doing and why, to properly answer your question.

And in the end if you moved your experiment from thumb drives to actual hard drives, the performance would tank, the only reason you are seeing performance improvements is due to using a thumb drive (or SSD).
 


Back up...there was no arguing or fighting on my part and I'm not the one that came at anybody with an attitude as most of you did towards me in the beginning, and my question did not say what type of drive. Everyone just assumed that it was a hard drive. You also assumed that I didn't know anything about the read/write heads on the platters of a spinning disk and that I didn't know it would decrease performance on a spinning hard drive. So technically, by raiding two 32 GB drives together and copying the image file to a 64 GB drive, I got two partitions raided together on one drive. I also did not dismiss your answers, I only dismissed the one quoting another. I said it was possible to do it and some of the answers is what led me to everything I learned about and posted. In none of my comments was I antagonistic...recheck...you simply did not need to know what I was trying to accomplish in order to answer the question. I also stated "I already know that people say that to partition a drive then raid 0 them together will decrease performance." which was in a previous post with regards to your last statement. And my research just proved that it is possible to do it on a hard drive as well. Some of you came at me with attitudes right from the beginning all because you assumed it was a bad idea but thats not how you treat people( bad idea or no). But all I wanted to know was if there was a software or method to accomplish it. And there is. I wanted to learn for myself. I have been nothing but polite, I thanked the people that looked into it(even after they were rude and insulting), used sir when speaking to a person while most of ya'll did the opposite. What does RAID stand for again. Is a disk image an an actual disk? Thank you for your time and what help I was able to get from you, but not for your attitude.
 
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Neither of those would indicate disk images.

I don't know what thread you are reading, but while yes some replies at the beginning were not helpful, they were not helpful because the mere idea of what you wanted to do was (and is with a physical drive) ridiculous. You dropped an immediate attitude and refused to even answer questions but instead insisted that nobody need to know the what or why of what you were doing, but you just want an answer. You didn't indicate your understanding of anything until deep within the thread, and instead of providing ANY sort of explanation so people could help you, you chose to regale us with anecdotes of futility, as if you think you can prove all the world wrong and make this work better. Had you actually elaborated a little bit, maybe indicated you had some understand ing of what was going on when you were asked you would have gotten to your answer far quicker.

This site is a collaborative effort, not everyone has every answer and threads require some actual working together in many cases to get to a solution. Perhaps next time you want to post a hare brained scheme you can lose the chip on your shoulder and WORK WITH the people in the thread instead of insisting on a very specific answer with no context.
 
Back up...there was no arguing or fighting on my part

Really?

did I ask if it was useless? Did I ask for your opinion if it served no purpose? It serves a purpose for me... I do not need to tell you what I hope to gain or why I want to do it... That is, if you are truly on this forum to help.

Each snippet is from each of your first three replies. Each one is snarky in my opinion. I can 100% promise you that every one of us mods have been in a thread where someone thought they wanted to do X, only to discover that Y was needed. One of the first things I do when I come into a thread is to try to understand why someone wants something. Because we all the time have people who think something is the issue only to find out later it's something else. I had one person not to far back who thought he needed a new cooler for his CPU because it couldn't handle the OC. Turns out his motherboard VRMs needed better cooling. If I/we didn't stop to ask questions to see what exactly was wrong he would have just bought a new cooler and still had the same problem, a 100% lack of VRM cooling. You got defensive and "angry" that we asked why. But why 100% matters.

From an education stand point this is an interesting idea. Using SSDs or thumb drives changes things compared to spinning disks, but you've now introduced USB bottlenecks. Not just in USB transfer speeds but controllers as well. I get that you feel you were mistreated by the first people who replied, but you "flew off the handle" at a simple question. (why?)
 
If you had mentioned USB sticks at the beginning, multiple potential solutions present from a trivial google search.

https://fstoppers.com/product/convert-unused-usb-thumb-drives-your-new-favorite-live-work-ssd-12299
https://gizmodo.com/5-painfully-clever-flash-drive-tricks-we-wish-wed-thoug-1569483223
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=77186
http://analogbit.com/2008/04/21/6x-usb-flash-drive-raid/

I stopped there, but there are others.

And yes, that is multiple physical "drives" as is dictated in the term RAID.
Not partitions on a single physical drive.
 


No, sir...I did not drop an immediate attitude. The guy who first posted dropped the immediate attitude and I responded with two questions with regards as to why he responded in such a way and suggested that he read the Terms of Use as to how to treat people which maybe you should read as well. That was not an attitude. And yet again, you go on to insult me by claiming that "I'm the one with the chip on my shoulder" and I'm the one with a "hare brained scheme" and I chose to regale you with "anecdotes of futility". So, your people are allowed to make quotes but I'm not and somehow your insulted by them. Also, you like to use all caps which in internet etiquette means your shouting. Again, I stand behind what I said, you did not need to know what I was doing in order to answer the question. You did not need to approach me with an attitude right off the bat (good idea or no). I do not wish to discuss this matter with you anymore since every reply you make comes at me with an attitude and insults and shouting.
 
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