Basic volumes and dynamic volumes

[Turtle]

Hi everyone,

What are the advantages (or disadvantages) of creating

Dynamic volumes

instead of Basic volumes?

Thanks for all answers!
John

 

[Grandfather of TOS]

dynamic you can have 2 hard disks appear as one big drive

disadvantage... is that if one hard drive dies you lose all your data from
both

"Turtle" wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

What are the advantages (or disadvantages) of creating

Dynamic volumes

instead of Basic volumes?

Thanks for all answers!
John

 

[Turtle]

Hi Grandfather,

Am 06.08.2010 13:56, schrieb Grandfather of TOS:
> dynamic you can have 2 hard disks appear as one big drive
>
> disadvantage... is that if one hard drive dies you lose all your data
> from both

Interesting. . .
It seems like it only makes sense if you have more than one hard drive.

Is this still a problem that hard drive maintenance programs cannot work
with dynamic volumes???

John

 

[Grandfather of TOS]

avoid dynamic drives.. they will mess up everything

keep it simple

"Turtle" wrote in message
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Hi Grandfather,

Am 06.08.2010 13:56, schrieb Grandfather of TOS:
> dynamic you can have 2 hard disks appear as one big drive
>
> disadvantage... is that if one hard drive dies you lose all your data
> from both

Interesting. . .
It seems like it only makes sense if you have more than one hard drive.

Is this still a problem that hard drive maintenance programs cannot work
with dynamic volumes???

John

 

[Trimble Bracegirdle]

IMO keep well away unless you have some real need for them.
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[Yousuf Khan]

On 06/08/2010 68 AM, Turtle wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> What are the advantages (or disadvantages) of creating
>
> Dynamic volumes
>
> instead of Basic volumes?
>
> Thanks for all answers!
> John

As others have said, dynamic drives are for creating large compound
drives. This could mean concatenation, striping (RAID0), mirroring
(RAID1), or RAID5. However, they don't work through USB external drive
enclosures, they only work with internal hard drives.

Yousuf Khan