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Dynamic Disk
 Simple
 Spanned
 Striped
Dynamic Disk
Like basic disks, which are the most commonly used storage type
found on computers running Microsoft Windows, dynamic disks
can use the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table
(GPT) partitioning scheme. All volumes on dynamic disks are
known as dynamic volumes. Dynamic disks were first introduced
with Windows 2000 and provide features that basic disks do not,
such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks
(spanned and striped volumes), and the ability to create fault
tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes).
Volume Management
Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume management because

they use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the
disk and about other dynamic disks in the computer. Because each
dynamic disk in a computer stores a replica of the dynamic disk database,
it can repair a corrupted database on one dynamic disk by using the
database on another dynamic disk.
The location of the database is determined by the partition style of the
disk.
 On MBR disks, the database is contained in the last 1 megabyte (MB)
of the disk.
 On GPT disks, the database is contained in a 1-MB reserved (hidden)
partition known as the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) Metadata partition.
Types of Dynamic Volumes
A dynamic volume is a volume that is created on a dynamic disk.

Dynamic volume types include simple, spanned, and striped
volumes. Windows Server 2003 also supports mirrored and RAID-5
volumes, which are fault tolerant. Fault tolerance is the ability of
computer hardware or software to make sure that your data is still
available, even if there is a hardware failure.
Simple Volume
Simple volumes are the dynamic-disk equivalent of the primary
partitions and logical drives found on basic disks. When creating
simple volumes, keep these points in mind:
If you have only one dynamic disk, you can create only simple
volumes.
You can increase the size of a simple volume to include unallocated
space on the same disk or on a different disk. The volume must be
unformatted or formatted by using NTFS. You can increase the size
of a simple volume in two ways:
 By extending the simple volume on the same disk. The volume
remains a simple volume, and you can still mirror it.
 By extending a simple volume to include unallocated space on other
disks on the same computer. This creates a spanned volume.
Spanned volumes
Spanned volumes combine areas of unallocated space from multiple disks
into one logical volume. The areas of unallocated space can be different
sizes. Spanned volumes require two disks, and you can use up to 32 disks.
When creating spanned volumes, keep these points in mind:
 You can extend only NTFS volumes or unformatted volumes.
 After you create or extend a spanned volume, you cannot delete any
portion of it without deleting the entire spanned volume.
 You cannot stripe or mirror spanned volumes.
 Spanned volumes do not provide fault tolerance. If one of the disks
containing a spanned volume fails, the entire volume fails, and all data
on the spanned volume becomes inaccessible. The reliability for a
spanned volume is less than the least reliable disk in the set.
Striped volume
Striped volumes improve disk input/output (I/O) performance by
distributing I/O requests across disks. Striped volumes are composed of
stripes of data of equal size written across each disk in the volume. They
are created from equally sized, unallocated areas on two or more disks. In
Windows Server 2003, the size of each stripe is 64 kilobytes (KB) and
cannot be changed.
Striped volumes cannot be extended or mirrored and do not offer fault
tolerance. If one of the disks containing a striped volume fails, the entire
volume fails, and all data on the striped volume becomes inaccessible. The
reliability for the striped volume is less than the least reliable disk in the
set.
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