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  • Before dynamic disk technology appears, all computer users manage their disks with basic disk technology. Maybe, users did not find defects of basic disk before. However, with the development of times, data volume becomes larger and larger till dissatisfying our storage demands. As a result, more and more people begin to complain about deficient partition capacity of basic disk. Even if we can use partition management software to extend partition, the space which can be extended is restricted in one disk, which can not meet our actual demands most of the time, either. For this reason, dynamic disk emerges, which helps us solve the problem of partition capacity restriction of basic disk. Besides, dynamic disk makes a great promotion in data safety. Therefore, dynamic disk is preferred by more enterprise users. Well then, how does dynamic disk solve partition capacity restriction of basic disk and how to promote data safety with dynamic disk?

    Dynamic disk is designed for those users who have multiple disks. No matter you are PC users or enterprise users, you also can use dynamic disk to manage computer disks. Dynamic disk is not only widely used in Server operating systems but also can run under Windows XP, Windows 7, and other PC operating systems. Besides, dynamic disk does not require exact disk numbers. Even if our computer just has one disk, we also can use dynamic disk technology to manage our disks. The only defect is that we only can create simple volumes just like basic partitions instead of creating spanned volume, RAID-5 volume, and other volumes with higher performance. Therefore, only in the computer with multiple disks can we experience advantages of dynamic disk.

    1. Use spanned volume and striped volume of dynamic disk to break through partition capacity restriction
    Now that dynamic disk is computer management technology aiming at multiple disks, well then, how does it break through partition capacity restriction of basic disk?



    In dynamic disk, we can create volumes larger than a single disk by creating spanned volume to break through disk capacity restriction, which can not be realized on basic disk. Besides, we also can use space in multiple disks to create volumes with super capacity by creating striped volume to meet our storage demands. Furthermore, striped volume can promote data access rate obviously.

    2. Use mirrored volume and RAID-5 volume to promote data safety
    Just now, we said dynamic disk can help us not only solve partition capacity restriction of basic disk but also promote data safety. Well then, how to realize this promotion with dynamic disk?



    Dynamic disk can help us create not only simple volume, spanned volume, and striped volume but also mirrored volume and RAID-5 volume. For mirrored volume, just as its name implies, it can create mirrored transcript to ensure data safety, just like making a mirror for operating system. But for RAID-5 volume, many computer users are not familiar with it. This kind of dynamic disk can promote disk safety by adding parity digit, and it also can recover data by itself.

    Compared with basic disk, dynamic disk has made a great progress in volume capacity and data safety. It should be noted that only when various kinds of volumes are matched together reasonably to use can dynamic disk play its maximum effect, thereby offering guarantee for high running efficiency of computer and data safety. Therefore, we should select an excellent dynamic disk manager to help us manage dynamic disk. MiniTool Partition Wizard not only can help users create various kinds of dynamic volumes but also offers multiple dynamic disk management functions, such as format dynamic volume, delete dynamic volume, and wipe dynamic disk. All these functions are indispensable when we manage dynamic disks in our daily life. If you want to know more related information about this dynamic disk manager, please visit its official website http://www.partitionwizard.com.