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How to Combine Multiple Hard Drives Into One Volume for Cheap, High-Capacity Storage More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by NEJIME | permalink
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Once you've gone through a few computers, you probably have more than a few old hard drives lying around. You don't have to let them go to waste, though! Here's how to combine multiple hard drives into one, huge volume that'll hold just about anything.
Tags: Hard Drives, partitioning, Spanned volumes, Raid, Windows, Mac, Mac OS X, Os X, Linux, FreeNAS, Nas4free, Space, Hardware, Saving Money, Feature, Top, Lifehacker

For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/5986883/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-into-one-volume-for-cheap-high-capacity-storage ^[1]

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Turning two partitions into one More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by Mr Pippins | permalink
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You've created two partitions on a drive and now think better of it. What's the best way to turn two to one? Chris Breen offers advice.

For further reading: http://www.macworld.com/article/2087881/turning-two-partitions-into-one.html ^[2]

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How to Merge Hard Drives on a Mac | eHow More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by Tucker Gunneman | permalink
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Partitioning a Mac hard drive means to split the hard drive into two or more separate drives. A partitioned hard drive can be handy for running two operating systems on one Mac, like running Mac OS X on one and Windows on another. However, it also means the overall size of both hard drives will be smaller. In order to restore the hard drives to...

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_5845390_merge-hard-drives-mac.html ^[3]

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How to merge two Mac partitions? More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by Dale Heim | permalink
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Recently I ran Boot Camp Assistant to install a copy of Windows 7. The "Partitioning Disk" process froze and I force quit it - I know, bad idea - and although I was left with a functioning Mac, I n...

For further reading: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138748/how-to-merge-two-mac-partitions ^[4]

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Merging Two Partitions on a Mac Hard Drive Into One Partition More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by proview 2005 | permalink
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With today's large hard drives, you may create two partitions on a hard drive, thinking you'll use it more efficiently by using one partition for files like photos, video, and the like, while the other could be used for backups.

For further reading: http://apple.answers.com/os-x/merging-two-partitions-on-a-mac-hard-drive-into-one-partition ^[5]

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How to Create, Merge, Resize Partitions on Mac More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by Dev Anand | permalink
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Creating new partitions on the Mac is really easy one. Also you can resize, delete, merge partions from any internal and external hard drives in Mac OS X....

For further reading: http://www.iphonetopics.com/mac-partition-hard-drive/ ^[6]

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How to Resize an Existing Volume with Disk Utility More
Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago by ALPHA OUATTARA | permalink
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Disk Utility has the ability to add, delete, and resize hard drive partitions without erasing data. If you need to resize a partition, or split a partition, this guide will tell you how.

For further reading: http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize.htm ^[7]

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1. http://lifehacker.com/5986883/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-into-one-volume-for-cheap-high-capacity-storage

2. http://www.macworld.com/article/2087881/turning-two-partitions-into-one.html

3. http://www.ehow.com/how_5845390_merge-hard-drives-mac.html

4. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138748/how-to-merge-two-mac-partitions

5. http://apple.answers.com/os-x/merging-two-partitions-on-a-mac-hard-drive-into-one-partition

6. http://www.iphonetopics.com/mac-partition-hard-drive/

7. http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize.htm