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SickPup404 · 10-29-2002, 01:30 PM

One big plus about resizing on-the-fly: Let's say you run out of space. Just drop another HDD in your PC, set it up as dynamic, then add it to your existing basic disk and you now have a drive on JBOD. I think you can also use dynamic disks to mount to directories on an NTFS volume, so you could have a "C:\Program Files" on your ACTUAL C:, then a "C:\Program Files\Alternate" and point it to another PHYSICAL drive - the Dynamic one.

I've been playing around with it recently, but I must admit that I THINK it may well add some extra overhead that I can do without, so I'm using just BASIC disks with my KT7A-RAID. Using two 40's striped, and the WD Special Ed 80 - all NTFS.

10-29-2002, 01:30 PM	#7 (permalink)
SickPup404 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Sussex county, Delaware, USA Posts: 1,156	One big plus about resizing on-the-fly: Let's say you run out of space. Just drop another HDD in your PC, set it up as dynamic, then add it to your existing basic disk and you now have a drive on JBOD. I think you can also use dynamic disks to mount to directories on an NTFS volume, so you could have a "C:\Program Files" on your ACTUAL C:, then a "C:\Program Files\Alternate" and point it to another PHYSICAL drive - the Dynamic one. I've been playing around with it recently, but I must admit that I THINK it may well add some extra overhead that I can do without, so I'm using just BASIC disks with my KT7A-RAID. Using two 40's striped, and the WD Special Ed 80 - all NTFS.