What’s a Dynamic Disk?

✳️ You probably have a basic disk and don’t need the functionality offered by dynamic disk support... even if that functionality is kind of cool.

✳️ Dynamic disks
Dynamic disks differ from basic disks by handling features like merging, spanning, and mirroring volumes across multiple physical drives. Most home users have basic disks and don’t need dynamic disk support unless they require advanced functionality.

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Chapters
0:00 Dynamic Disk
0:45 What makes a dynamic disk different?
1:00 Examples
1:50 Merging space
3:00 Dynamic merging
3:50 Spanned volumes
4:40 Risk of failure
5:05 Striped volumes
6:10 Mirrored volumes
7:10 RAID-5

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