What benefit I get from Dynamic Volume?

[didi]

I am setting up a database server running under W2K.
The machine has hardware mirrored system disk (2 disks)
and hardware raid disk (3 disks) for data.
I wonder if I get benefits by upgrading volume for data
from basic volume to Dynamic volume.

We are going to have intensive data access and some update
during day and batch data load at night.

Any suggestion is very welcome!

Didi

 

[Ryan Anderson [MSFT]]

If you aren't doing any software fault tolerance, I would leave the disk as
basic. Other than software fault tollerance, the only thing you would need a
dynamic disk for is to have a spanned volume. There will be no performance
boost from going to a dynamic disk.

Hope this helps,

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Ryan Anderson MCSE
Directory Services
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[Trapulo]

and formatting the file system with 64kb clusters size?