Dynamic vs. Basic Disk

[yukon10]

Do you guys have any preference when it comes to dynamic vs. basic. What I have on my home system is 4 Drives.

SATA II 250 WD
IDE Maxtor 320
IDE WD 120
IDE WD 100

How would you set these up to get best use out of them. Do they have to be the same to raid them?? I know these questions sound crazy was just wanting to some input..

thanks

 

[bcastner]

A dynamic disk contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes.

Only use dynamic disks when spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID-5 volumes are needed. Remember that an awful lot of disk utilities will not work on dynamic disks.

XP does not natively do RAID setups.
Software Raid:

http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149

(see the corrective comments at the end of the article)

Hardware Raid and Performance

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6323

 

[lanceja]

Another thing to take into consideration is that the C: drive has to be on a basic disk. You cannot put C: on a dynamic disk.

 

[yukon10]

I've made my decision. Gonna stick with Basic..

 

[bcastner]

Good choice.

 

[linney]

Disk Management

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c12621675.mspx

Managing File Systems and Drives

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...ptimize/c10w2kad.mspx#XSLTsection123121120120