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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Nashable on 2023-08-15 20:30:37+00:00.

Looking for some advice. I have 8x18TB drives where I do not care about losing individual files in case of a HDD failure. So I don’t need a raid setup. Anything worth keeping is stored on a separate solution. This is just for transitory files that will often be stored for 60-90 days before being deleted and ideally I’d like to automate it as much as possible.

I’ve picked up a Mediasonic USB 3.1 8 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure to store the drives. The device will be connected to a Windows 10 machine. Ideally my goal is not to run as a JBOD as the software handling the media file management would require constant reconfiguration as to what default drive it would drop to.

What I’m looking for is a way in Windows to present the device as a single drive and path, like a spanned drive, but unlike a spanned drive I don’t want to have to delete the entire volume if one of the disks fail. Is there a solution that would allow me to simplify the 8 disks into a single drive/volume?

Also as when I’ve searched similar questions, people shared that this is a “Bad Idea”, I get that. Anything I want to keep is stored elsewhere and backed up in the cloud. This is just for stuff I don’t care if it gets lost due to HDD failure.

Appreciate any thoughts folks have