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110 Netfinity and Windows 2000 Integration Guide
6.5.1 Basic and dynamic disks
Windows 2000 supports two types of physical disks: basic disks and dynamic
disks.
Basic disks are the traditional disks, containing primary, extended, and logical
partitions, as used in many operating systems including Windows NT, OS/2,
and DOS. Choose a basic disk if you have a dual-boot system with any of
these operating systems.
Dynamic disks are new and only available in Windows 2000. They contain
dynamic volumes that can be expanded without a reboot. Other operating
systems cannot access dynamic disks because dynamic disks cannot contain
partitions.
By default, basic disks are created. A basic disk can be converted into a dynamic
disk, and a dynamic disk can be reverted into a basic disk (if the disk contains no
volumes). When upgrading from Windows NT 4.0 Server to Windows 2000 Server
volume sets, stripe sets, mirrors, and stripe sets with parity are preserved and the
disks remain basic disks. However, Windows 2000 will not let you create any new
basic volumes on basic disks other than ordinary partitions.
To create new software RAID or spanned volumes on Windows 2000, you must
use dynamic disks. The names of these volumes have changed from Windows NT
4.0, but the meaning is still the same (Table 16).
Table 16. Old and new volume terminology
There is a performance hit when using software RAID versus the hardware RAID
provided by adapters such as ServeRAID or Netfinity Fibre Channel. There is no
benefit in combining software and hardware RAID. Therefore, we recommend you
use either ServeRAID or Fibre Channel RAID controllers and configure your disks
as simple (or spanned) volumes or partitions.
Basic or dynamic storage works on a disk level, so you cannot mix basic
partitions and dynamic volumes on the same physical disk. Removable disks (for
example, in laptops) cannot be upgraded to dynamic storage.
For more information about basic and dynamic disks, refer to online Help by
pressing F1.
6.5.2 Upgrading a basic disk to a dynamic disk
On opening the Disk Management tool, Windows 2000 checks for any disks that
dont have a disk signature and for basic disks that dont contain any partitions. If
Windows NT 4.0 and basic storage Dynamic storage
Normal disk Simple volume
Volume set Spanned volume
Stripe set
2
Striped volume
2
Mirror
1
Mirrored volume
1
Stripe set with parity
1
RAID-5 volume
1
Notes:
1 Only mirrored and RAID-5 volumes are fault tolerant
2 A stripe set of striped volume is a RAID Level-0 implementation
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