Throwing away my old junk the other day, discovered that i have a lot of old hardware especially old dvd drives. I'm thinking what they can still be used for, and i got some crazy idea, don't know if it was even a thing back in a day. But is there possible to somehow use multiple burrners with dvd-rw discs and use all of them as one, like for example in raid or dynamic raid to extend capacity ? Of course this is only for fun, no practical use for it i guess.
It doesn't have to be true raid "software raid" just show up like one big storage space and use multiple rewritable disc's It would be crazy if it's possible, a lot of fun
I heard that some industrial multiple dvd burrners had functionality to write data in multiple disc dynamically but i think it is pure software tricks, nothing more. Want to replicate it through.
Those were duplication stations or software, using multiple dvd-r(w) stations simultaneously for duplicating dvd's.
I see, so, no way this gonna work. Maybe it can be done with junctions or somehow, just directing files to multiple formated discs.
It might be possible, but you need to use DVD-RAM discs, not dvd-rw and most probably a linux based file system that has some software raid funcionality like zfs. I suppose windows storage spaces can't do that
DVD media is probably the slowest type of media you could use today and even that is going by the wayside. Even if you could get it to work, the lag would make it unusable for anything productive.