There's a saying, "What you can do and what you should do are two different things." This saying rings true for many virtual environments – in my travels supporting customers, I've seen some strange ...

A Windows hard disk configuration that supports RAID architectures for high performance and fault tolerance, as well as spanning (treating multiple physical disks as one). Striping (RAID 0) splits the ...

Pros and cons, anyone?<BR><BR>In a related thread, I've asked for help with ghosting my dynamic C: drive which is not happening. Cons 1, Pros 0.

Windows 2000 introduced the concepts of basic disks and dynamic disks and added them to the Windows system administrator's arsenal of tools. What's the difference between the two? Let's look at both ...

Heres the setup<BR>3x73gb drives in a raid 5 config. 7gb partition is aloted for the os. The rest is on a separate partition for data. I just added a 4th 73gb drive into the raid. The new space showed ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...

In this video, Mark Henderson and Mike Pehlan from NetApp demonstrate how Dynamic Disk Pools enable performance, efficiency, and scalability. Watch as they cause a double-drive failure on two separate ...

If you’re getting the 0x80042444 – 0x4002F error code during a Windows 11 upgrade, it’s likely due to a dynamic disk configuration issue. When disks are set as ...