Chapter 12. Managing Volumes and RAID on Dynamic Disks
When you work with dynamic disks, you create volumes instead of partitions. A volume is simply a disk section that you can use for storing data directly. Although you create volumes in much the same way as you create partitions, volumes have many additional capabilities. You can
Create a volume on a single drive, called a simple volume.
Extend volumes to fill empty space on a disk, which creates an extended volume.
Create a single volume that spans multiple drives, called a spanned volume.
Configure RAID (a redundant array of independent disks). Windows Server 2008 supports RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5. Windows Vista supports only RAID-0.
Because volumes and RAID arrays are created on dynamic drives, ...
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