Dynamic Disks

As shown in Figure 2.6, Logical Disk Manager manages dynamic disks, which can only be used on Windows 2000. Dynamic disk configuration uses a private database at the end of the disk in addition to the same kilobytes at the beginning of the disk that are used by basic disks. Any disk containing a volume managed by Disk Management contains this database.The database is replicated among all dynamic disks in the system. Dynamic disks can contain simple volumes, concatenated volumes, stripe volumes, mirrored volumes, and redundant array of independent disks (RAID) level 5 volumes. Dynamic volumes offer features, such as volume extension and fault tolerance configurations. Disk Management user interfaces, such as the Disk Management snap-in included with Windows 2000, interact with both Ftdisk and Disk Management functionality.

For more information about basic and dynamic disks, see "Disk Concepts and Troubleshooting" in this book.

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