What is a dynamic disk?

The dynamic disk is a hard disk that has been formatted to allow the capacity beyond the option available when the disk is formatted as a basic disk. Dynamic Disk Management is a proprietary dissection system Microsoft, which was originally available with the release of Microsoft Windows 2000 and servers. Rather than having a primary partition and an extended partition with logical units, as is the case with the basic disk, dynamic disk management partition Hard disk into volumes. The volumes can be enlarged by the size of the available uniform space on the unit or extend in several ways to more than one disk. Extension of the dynamic disk can provide increased volume capacity and redundant functions that help prevent data loss and data regeneration. The dynamic disk management is the main boot record (MBR) and the globally unique styles of partition distribution (GPT). Instead of file allocation files (FAT) uses instead of files for allocation of SVBlue (NTFS) instead of files system (NTFS). Up to 1000 volumes in the disk group can be created on the dynamic disk, but Microsoft recommends a maximum of 32. Each of these volumes can expand up to 32 physical disks.

Information about the basic disks section is stored in the section of the section at the beginning of the physical disk, while the data of dynamic disks at the end of the disk in the database file. Basic drives can be converted to dynamic disks, provided there is enough space on the disk to store the transfer information, but cannot be easily converted backwards. The use of dynamic disks with dual or multiboot systems is not recommended due to problems with alternate operating systems and how Windows stores information about the dynamic disk in the registry.

Volumes

can be expanded to become a software redundant amount of independent volume of disks-5 (RAID-5) that provideExcellent resistance to disorders by removing small data and parity on at least 3 discs. Mirror extensions of dynamic disks allow the existence of two complete active copies of the volume and are updated simultaneously. There are also exceeded, undressed and simple volume expansion, but do not provide resistance to failure.

Although Windows Client operating systems have the ability to use dynamic disks, they are usually used and better suitable for server environments. The main advantages of using this type of disk management system are the ability to grow disk, redundancy and flexibility in working with physical disks. All these functions are often used to solve problems in server situations.