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Managing volumes - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: Installation and Configuration
Managing volumes
- [Instructor] Once our hard drive has been configured as a dynamic disk, all kinds of options have now opened up. We can divide and arrange our hard drive or drives into volumes to create spaces with the special abilities we need to speed up access to information, to create fault tolerance, or both, or just to add additional space to an existing volume. I'm going to give a quick overview of some of the types of volumes that may be created and how they can benefit your server. A mirrored set involves an identical amount of space on exactly two hard drives where, when you save data to the hard drive, the exact same data is saved in both locations. Ultimate fault tolerance, one drive can go down, the other one has all of the information and can continue to run. A stripe set is where you take at least two hard drives and you split up the information being saved and stripe it across the drives. Now just like many maps that are…
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