Dynamic Disks? whats that?

jcw122

Member

​

Joined

Jun 25, 2004

• Mar 13, 2005

• #1

If u right click on My Computer...go to Manage...then Disk Management and right click ur main disk....there is an option for converting the disk to a "Dynamic Disk" . What exactly does this mean? TIA all.

 

Albaholic

Member

​

Joined

Sep 5, 2001

• Mar 13, 2005

• #2

its m$'s implementation of software raid, with dynamic disks, you will be able to create things like mirrored, spanned, and striped volumes.

 

dark_15

Drunken Master JNCIE Senior

​

Joined

Mar 16, 2004

• Mar 13, 2005

• #3

Software RAID is pretty poor performance BTW, since it steals your CPU cycles to process data. I would stay away from it if you can.

 

OP

jcw122

Member

​

Joined

Jun 25, 2004

• Mar 13, 2005

• Thread Starter
• #4

k thanks guys

 

F

Flewdefur

Member

​

Joined

Apr 1, 2003

Location

Irvine, CA

• Mar 13, 2005

• #5

dark_15 said:

Software RAID is pretty poor performance BTW, since it steals your CPU cycles to process data. I would stay away from it if you can.

Click to expand...

not necessarily true. If you have a computer which is a dedicated file server, there isnt much else your cpu cycles need to go to except serving data, so in that case using software raid is an acceptable option, especially for a home server where cost typically needs to be low and performance isnt absolutely critical.

 

W

Wakeboardin_411

Member

​

Joined

Nov 29, 2004

• Mar 13, 2005

• #6

how much of would it steal because i got 4 hd's and stripping them thur windows seems to be the only thing do without buying a raid card. I'll put it like this would it be worth the cost to get a raid card over using windows.

 

F

Flewdefur

Member

​

Joined

Apr 1, 2003

Location

Irvine, CA

• Mar 13, 2005

• #7

I really do not know as i have not done much of anything with software raid.

 

Mr.Guvernment

Member

​

Joined

Feb 26, 2003

• Mar 14, 2005

• #8

radi card would be better then window - what if windows FUBAR's ? there goes your array - a raid card is made do to 1 specific task - raid hard drives - so less chance of it messing up.

 

U

uthungover

Registered

​

Joined

Mar 23, 2004

Location

Kansas

• Mar 15, 2005

• #9

Software raids preformance is not that poor, it's on par with the preformance of common raid cards. Non server oriented raid cards, i.e, Promise, Highpoint, ect, do most of the work in software so you can say they are software based. One thing to remember, you can't boot off a dynamic volume