RE: [OT] Windows XP Dynamic Disks

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is one *ADVANTAGE* to Dynamic Disks which no-one has yet pointed
out...

...if in three or four years time when a bit of critical RAID hardware
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s
(such as your motherboard or RAID controller or whatever is actually
drivin=
g
your RAID array) then if the manufacturers are no longer producing that
controller or motherboard you are *COMPLETELY BUGGERED*. (And there is
nothing more frustrating than having data on drives which you know is
intac=
t
and completely workable but just not being able to get to it because you
don't have a replacement controller.)

At least with Dynamic Disks you are pretty much guaranteed that you will
still be able to resurrect that array as (as long as you can still install
the OS) you will still have software support for them. (I doubt that
Microsoft will drop support for them in the forseeable future.)

Phil

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Dan Ward
> Sent: 23 June 2006 10:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Windows XP Dynamic Disks
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> Hi,
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> I have a dynamic disk, in Raid 5 config, I have 8 x 250GB=20
> drives, with an Adaptec controller card.  I must say I am=20
> very please with it and it was easy to setup.  Beauty of it=20
> is that if a disk fails I will not loose all my dvd's just=20
> install a new disk, and the array fixes it's self.
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> It is important to by a decent control card, so you do not=20
> load up your system too much.  I am told that motherboard=20
> based arrays are not as good as ones which use a seperate=20
> card.  The cards are quite expensive, ISTR around =A3350 - 400=20
> for an eight disk card.
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> I don't use it as my main drive, so can't comment on it as a=20
> primary partition.
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> With your 3 x 250GB disks you would in raid 5 get 500GB, but=20
> you could always add to it as you need to, you only=20
> effectively loose one disk.
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> Cheers
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> Dan
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> ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Simon McCaughey
>   To: UK Home Automation List
>   Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 4:27 PM
>   Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Windows XP Dynamic Disks
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>   Does anyone on here have any recommendations as to whether dynamic
>   disks are a good idea in WinXP?
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>   I have a media server with 3x250Gb disks in it, and was considering
>   changing them to dynamic, so they appear as one drive
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>   Are there any potential pitfalls with dynamic disks? I assume if one
>   fails it doesnt take the others with it..?
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>   Thanks
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>   Simon
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