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the purpose of spanned volume

I want to know the purpose of spanned volume. if it's good only for storage purposes, I can have 02 different drives not spanned and save files in either drive I want .
Is there any other purpose of spanned drive
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Nope.  It lets you create a logical volume which consists of space located on several physical volumes.

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A Spanned volume utilizes space from one or more physical disks to create a logical volume spread across multiple disks.
A spanned volume allows you to utilize leftover space from physical disks so that you can create a large logical disk volume so that all the disk space is utilized. As jeff as already mentioned the spanned volume is not fault tolerant and there can be a data loss if any of the physical disk fails.

I think the question has been dealt with already.

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