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Stripping Dynamic disks

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by kcav

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What properties does a Dynamic disk have that allow it to be stripped?

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by rapidad

the physical properties are the same for a dynamic disk as for a basic disk, it just the way windows deals with them, and how windows populates the disk fat files. I take it you are running either w2k server or advanced server. if you have multiple disks of the same size you can choose striping on server and even raid 5 on advanced server. you used to have to have special hardware to do that but microsoft has made it much easier. I just made a raid 5 set today as a matter of fact, on an old HP LDPro Netserver with three 9gig scsi's, worked great, got a 16.8 gig drive out of 27 gig of physical disk, oh well its supposed to be crash proof (right??).

by rapidad

from the boys in Redmond

Dynamic disks are not supported on the following hardware:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394 serial bus
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Removable disks
Disks in laptop computers or laptop docking stations
A dynamic disk is a physical disk that contains dynamic volumes created by using Disk Management. Dynamic disks do not use traditional partition tables like primary and extended partitions (logical drives); therefore, dynamic disks cannot be accessed by MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me) or Windows NT operating systems.

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q222189 Description of Disk Groups in Windows 2000 Disk Management
Q232463 Option to Upgrade Basic Disk to Dynamic on Laptop Not Available

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