is there a pro/con to dynamic disks?

[jkoXP]

i am thinking about upgrading my HD to dynamic disks, i know what it is and the differences between the volumes. but does it degrade performance on burning, dvd. gaming etc?

 

[SUOrangeman]

Win2K/XP only.

-SUO

 

[NogginBoink]

Dynamic disks were supposed to bring greater reliability.

I haven't seen that happen. When disk recovery becomes necessary, it's MUCH easier for me to recover a basic disk than a dynamic disk.

My advice is to avoid dynamic disks.

 

[jkoXP]

<< Win2K/XP only.

-SUO >>




yes i know that

 

[AndyHui]

Stick with basic discs unless you are really sure that you need dynamic disks. It's a one way conversion: neither Win2K/XP or anything else like Partition Magic can convert it back short of an FDISK.

 

[Nothinman]

1. Must delete all partitions to get back to basic disks
2. Utilities like Partition Magic can't read them.
3. No other OS can read them.
4. Need Server to have any redundancy (anything but RAID 0 or spanned volumes)

Theoretically it should help performance like hardware RAID (not sure about Windows software RAID but Linux software RAID 0 and 1 is sometimes faster than hardware versions)

 

[BlitzRommel]

You raised a good point Nothinman. From people who have been brave enough to ttry it, software raid is almost as fast as an avg. hardware RAID. In Windows, anyway.

I've been tempted to try software RAID with SuSE 7.3 Pro.