Re: What are the benefits of using dynamic disks over basic?

Ian Roberts <sorry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> Ive been reading a little about how to create Dynamic Discs but I havent come
> across anything to explain why I would want to use it over Basic disks.

They basically give you more capability, like being able to
span more than one physical drive into a combined logical drive.

There are however some downsides too, like if one physical
drive dies, all the data in the spanned volume is at risk, not
just the data on the single drive that has died. Obviously thats
just a nuisance if you are fully backed up etc.

Support for dynamic disks is worse with imaging software etc too.


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