Spanning a Solid State Drive and a Hybrid Drive Together

[Langfish747]

I currently have a full 240GB SSD and was wanting to expand that storage by spanning a 1TB Hybrid drive in order to obtain more storage space. Would this be possible seeing as how they are two different types of storage?

 

[Suztera]

Yes you can. It will be a separate drive from your SSD.

 

[Langfish747]

Awesome. Would overall speed be affected due to the slower drive or would it be based on what is on each drive?

 

[Suztera]

Awesome. Would overall speed be affected due to the slower drive or would it be based on what is on each drive?

Depends on what you doing. If you accessing, its based on the drive you accessing.
If you transferring files from your SSD to your SSHD, the write speed of the SSHD would be the limiting factor.

 

[USAFRet]

I currently have a full 240GB SSD and was wanting to expand that storage by spanning a 1TB Hybrid drive in order to obtain more storage space. Would this be possible seeing as how they are two different types of storage?

"spanning"
Are you looking to have them be a single drive letter? Problematic
Or just adding the HDD as a "D" drive? Easy.

 

[Langfish747]

I was looking/hoping at having them be a single drive letter.

 

[Langfish747]

I currently have a full 240GB SSD and was wanting to expand that storage by spanning a 1TB Hybrid drive in order to obtain more storage space. Would this be possible seeing as how they are two different types of storage?

"spanning"
Are you looking to have them be a single drive letter? Problematic
Or just adding the HDD as a "D" drive? Easy.

I was looking at just having them under one letter.

 

[USAFRet]

I was looking/hoping at having them be a single drive letter.

Problematic and troublesome.
Recent Windows OS has "Storage Spaces"
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739.aspx

But you're not really gaining anything.
A 240GB drive + 1TB drive is 1.24GB either way. The drive space is the same, without the software foolishness.

You can designate the 1TB drive for things that do not need the SSD speed, and take up significant space. Music/Video/Docs/Downloads. Easy stuff.
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html