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From: GettingByOk on 21 Mar 2010 19:52
Hi,

I'm formatting a 2 TB RAID-0 volume right now as a dynamic disk. It's a
2-drive RAID-0 set and it's my L: disk. My C: drive is also RAID-0 but it's a
Basic disk. Two questions:

1) Any drawbacks to Dynamic disks? Couldn't find any in the doc except for
the same kind as with NTFS, you can't do certain things w/ older OS's that I
don't need to do anyway.

2) Any significant risks or problems if I convert my C: drive from Basic to
Dynamic?

Thanks,
Robert
From: Shenan Stanley on 22 Mar 2010 12:54
GettingByOk wrote:
> I'm formatting a 2 TB RAID-0 volume right now as a dynamic disk.
> It's a 2-drive RAID-0 set and it's my L: disk. My C: drive is also
> RAID-0 but it's a Basic disk. Two questions:
>
> 1) Any drawbacks to Dynamic disks? Couldn't find any in the doc
> except for the same kind as with NTFS, you can't do certain things
> w/ older OS's that I don't need to do anyway.
>
> 2) Any significant risks or problems if I convert my C: drive from
> Basic to Dynamic?

Actually - I would ask myself this question, "What do *I* gain by using a
dynamic disk over a basic disk in my configuration...?" --> So - if you
asked yourself that - what is your answer? ;-)

Assuming you have read this?
http://www.dynamic-disk.com/difference-between-basic-and-dynamic-disk.html

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


From: GettingByOk on 8 Apr 2010 09:28
Shenan,

Thanks, that article is very helpful. At its end there's another article
explaining the tradeoffs using dynamic disks, which is always very useful to
know. Based on that, I'll leave my 2 TB eSATA as a dynamic disk (which is how
I was formatting it anyway) and leave my C: drive as a basic disk. I might
add another eSATA and do a RAID-1 across both RAID-0 eSATA's but my basic C:
drive doesn't seem to be broken so no need to fix it :)

Thanks again,
Robert

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> GettingByOk wrote:
> > I'm formatting a 2 TB RAID-0 volume right now as a dynamic disk.
> > It's a 2-drive RAID-0 set and it's my L: disk. My C: drive is also
> > RAID-0 but it's a Basic disk. Two questions:
> >
> > 1) Any drawbacks to Dynamic disks? Couldn't find any in the doc
> > except for the same kind as with NTFS, you can't do certain things
> > w/ older OS's that I don't need to do anyway.
> >
> > 2) Any significant risks or problems if I convert my C: drive from
> > Basic to Dynamic?
>
> Actually - I would ask myself this question, "What do *I* gain by using a
> dynamic disk over a basic disk in my configuration...?" --> So - if you
> asked yourself that - what is your answer? ;-)
>
> Assuming you have read this?
> http://www.dynamic-disk.com/difference-between-basic-and-dynamic-disk.html
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
> .
>
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