My new laptop has a SSD and a HDD.
Both arrived and are formatted to Basic Disks. I was considering converting them to Dynamic Disks as I seem to recall this was worth doing.
Is this right and is there an issue with converting disks from basic to dynamic. Any downside or upside to doing that?
Thanks
Quote from: Penfold;378134I was considering converting them to Dynamic Disks as I seem to recall this was worth doing.
Why? I'm not an expert on this but why would you want to span a dynamic volume over an SSD and a mechanical drive? For my level of knowledge I'd stick to basic volumes unless you have a specific need for dynamic volumes.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363785(v=vs.85).aspx
Someone else with more knowledge than me will no doubt be along in a while to educate me as to why dynamic drives are more beneficial!
Quote from: TeaLeaf;378135Why? I'm not an expert on this but why would you want to span a dynamic volume over an SSD and a mechanical drive? For my level of knowledge I'd stick to basic volumes unless you have a specific need for dynamic volumes.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363785(v=vs.85).aspx
Someone else with more knowledge than me will no doubt be along in a while to educate me as to why dynamic drives are more beneficial!
Correct, only reason to run dynamic is to create OS level raid/spans. which i doubt your interested in, or anyone else should be for that matter.
Microsoft textbooks will tell you that Dynamic Disks are great, but the reality is that they just leave you vulnerable to more issues and don't really bring any benefit.
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For some reason Acronis isn't liking backing up the disks I have - anyone else suggest something similar I can try?
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Quote from: Penfold;378505Thanks.
For some reason Acronis isn't liking backing up the disks I have - anyone else suggest something similar I can try?
Thanks.
Paragon Backup (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/) is pretty good, and there's a free version available.