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Dynamic disk volumes

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Dynamic disk volumes

Now that we've looked at dynamic disks, let's look at the dynamic disk topic in a little bit more detail. The first thing we want to look at is dividing dynamic disks into volumes. Dynamic disk supports five volume types. The first volume type is the simple volume. In a simple volume, you basically take one hard drive, and you create a volume out of that hard drive. A second volume type is a spanned volume. In a spanned volume you can take two or more hard drives, or portions of two or more hard drives and create a single volume spanning all those drives or portions of drives. The striped volume, which is also known as RAID-0. And is also sometimes called striped volume without parity. Allows you to take two or more hard drives and spread your volume out over those multiple hard drives. However, when it does that it saves a portion of the data to each hard drive. For example, if you had 3 hard drives has a striped volume, one third of your data would be saved to each hard drive. This…

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