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Managing Disk

What is Managing Disk?

The Managing Disk is was use to manage the partition to increase the performance and provide a flawless usage to the user and it was divide into two types one is basic and another one is Dynamic Disk.

Types of Disks

  1. Basic Disks
  2. Dynamic Disks

Difference Between Basic and Dynamic Disks

S No.

BASIC DISKS

DYNAMIC DISKS

1

Created By Default

         To Be Converted Form Basic Disk

2

Partition Can Be Created

         Volume Con Be Created

3

Two Type Of Partitions Available

         Five Type Of Volume Available

4

A Minimum Of 4 Partition Can Be Created

         Unlimited Number Of Volume Can Be                                Created

Note: Two Partitions Are

1) Primary     

2) Extended

Each Primary Partition Can Have Extended Partition

*Extended Can Be Farther Divide In To Logical Driver

Advantages of Managing Disk

  1. Increased Read/write Performance
  2. Gives Fault Tolerance (Or) Data Redundancy (Eliminating With Out Loss)

Basic Disks

A basic disk is a common type of partitions and logical drives use in Windows operating systems to manage all the partitions and data on the hard disk. The basic disk uses partition tables and logical drives. It contains primary partitions and an extended partitions with multiple logical drives.

Dynamic Disks

Dynamic disk is a dynamic volume which has the following types of volumes such as simple volume, striped volume, spanned volume, Mirror volume, and stipe with parity.

Also Learn About Types Of Volumes : [Dynamic Disks]

 

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