We've currently got 4 disks in a RAID5 configuration which has 3 partitions (C:, D: and E
. E: drive is 150 GB and is where user data is stored. However, it's no longer big enough for what we need to store there. We're about to create a second array with 2x300GB disks in a RAID1 configuration. This will give us an additional 300GB worth of data, but the array will appear to windows as a separate "disk". Ideally, what I'd like to do is combine the current 150GB with the new 300GB worth of storage, that way we don't have to decide which shares should go on which disks. But the only way I can see that we can do this is by using dynamic disks ... so, I have some questions !!
1. Are dynamic disks recommended for server situations? When I googled it, I mainly got pages relating to XP
2. Does it cause "confusion" for the hardware RAID controller?
3. If I setup a Spanned volume on the dynamic disks, how is the data written to the disks? Will it exhaust all the space on Disk0 and then move onto Disk1?
4. If one of the disks in one of my hardware RAIDs fails, and is replaced, will it have any impact on the spanned volume (which is escentially a software RAID)?
Would really love to hear from somebody who has tried this out. Or alternative, if somebody has another solution on how I can group the 150GB and 300GB worth of storage together, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
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1. Are dynamic disks recommended for server situations? When I googled it, I mainly got pages relating to XP
2. Does it cause "confusion" for the hardware RAID controller?
3. If I setup a Spanned volume on the dynamic disks, how is the data written to the disks? Will it exhaust all the space on Disk0 and then move onto Disk1?
4. If one of the disks in one of my hardware RAIDs fails, and is replaced, will it have any impact on the spanned volume (which is escentially a software RAID)?
Would really love to hear from somebody who has tried this out. Or alternative, if somebody has another solution on how I can group the 150GB and 300GB worth of storage together, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
Irish Poetry - Karen O'Connor
Get your Irish Poetry Published
Garten und Landschaftsbau