Basic, Dynamic & Striped - Server 2008 R2
Hi.
We have a running installation of server 2008 R2 which has been up for several months now. There is a single 1TB hard drive in use.
This drive is currently a basic disk and has 2 partitions -
#1 - System Reserved
#2 - The main C: drive
We have a second identical 1TB drive which is not in use (yet).
Would it be possible to convert the first disk to Dynamic then pair it with the second disk as a striped volume? All without data loss or any risk to the system?
We have a running installation of server 2008 R2 which has been up for several months now. There is a single 1TB hard drive in use.
This drive is currently a basic disk and has 2 partitions -
#1 - System Reserved
#2 - The main C: drive
We have a second identical 1TB drive which is not in use (yet).
Would it be possible to convert the first disk to Dynamic then pair it with the second disk as a striped volume? All without data loss or any risk to the system?
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Totally agree with dlethe, striping a server is like playing russion roulette.
If you want the performance increase look into raid 10 and buy some more disks.
If you want the performance increase look into raid 10 and buy some more disks.
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Thanks for the replies.
I only ask because we had a spare disk and I thought why not make use of it. We don't have any performance issues at the moment so I can't justify moving everything to a H/W RAID Controller.
Will probably use it as a mirror instead. Can never have too many backups.
I only ask because we had a spare disk and I thought why not make use of it. We don't have any performance issues at the moment so I can't justify moving everything to a H/W RAID Controller.
Will probably use it as a mirror instead. Can never have too many backups.
good decision!
You can't stripe the boot volume anyway since Windows needs software drivers loaded before it understands what striping means, it's a catch-22 situation. It would read the first stripe element from disk 1 and not understand to go to disk 2 for the second stripe element.
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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.
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Please note that MSFT does not recommend using dynamic disks as mirror for data protection on boot volumes. Use a RAID controller for that. If the 'primary' disk fails, your server will not able to boot again without manual interference. And, dynamic disks make data recovery harder in case of a drive failure.
More here on EE, a recent post concerning the matter:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28221011/Mirroring-data-in-Windows-Server-2008-R2.html