Dynamic Disks Archive
24 Feb 2012
Create Stripped Volumes (RAID-0) in Microsoft Windows 8
What Are Stripped Volumes? Stripped volume is yet another type of RAID category that administrators can create when two or more hard disk drives are attached to a computer. Key point while creating stripped volumes is that all attached hard disk drives involved in the configuration must be converted to dynamic disk types before administrators
24 Feb 2012
Create Spanned Volumes in Microsoft Windows 8
What Are Spanned Volumes? When a hard disk is converted to dynamic disk type it allows administrators to implement RAIDs on it. Redundant Array of Independent Disks implementation can be of several types and Spanned Volumes is among one of them. If administrators want to create Spanned Volume they must ensure that the hard disk
24 Feb 2012
Implementing RAID-5 in Windows Server 2008 R2
What Is RAID-5? RAID-5 is the 5th level of RAID implementation which is commonly known as stripped with parity. To implement this level of RAID a server must have minimum of three physical hard disk drives and all of them must be converted to dynamic disk types. In almost every production environment, including small, medium
24 Feb 2012
Convert Windows 8 Hard Disk Drives from Basic to Dynamic Type
What Are Dynamic Disks? In Microsoft Windows operating systems, dynamic disk type is the configuration that administrators make to the hard disk drives so that they can implement Redundant Array of Independent Disks or RAIDs. When Windows operating system is installed on a computer default hard disk configuration is Basic which allows administrators and users