Raid tutorial windows 7

As with basic disks, you can also extend, shrink, or delete a volume. We look at the methods of creating and working with striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes later in this tutorial. Dynamic volumes allow you to change their properties on an as-needed basis. If you have a computer that is, for example, running short of space, you can install an extra hard drive and extend an existing simple or spanned volume so that the new space is immediately available without directing the user to use drive J for this data, drive C for that data, drive Y for the network, and so on.

Users find multiple drive letters confusing, so being able to keep it all under one letter is highly preferable. Unfortunately, you cannot extend a system volume or a boot volume.

Because most computers are installed with a single volume, C:, which includes boot and system files, any volumes created on a new disk added to the computer must have a separate drive letter from the C: drive.

To increase the size of a simple volume, in Disk Management, right-click the existing volume and select Extend Volume from the shortcut menu. This tells you that Disk Management is creating the mirror. When this process finishes, you'll have two identical volumes. Both volumes will show the same drive letter in Disk Management, but the separation of volumes is transparent to users. Users see the mirror set as a single volume. The volume status should be listed as Healthy.

This is the normal status for volumes. If the status changes, you might need to repair or resync the mirrored set. You can also use an existing volume to create a mirrored set. For this to work, the volume you want to mirror must be a simple volume and you must have an area of unallocated space on a second dynamic drive of equal or larger space than the existing volume.

When you add a mirror onto this unallocated space, Disk Management creates a volume that is the same size and file system type as the simple volume you are mirroring.

Disks you add appear in the Selected column. If you want to change the amount of space to be allocated, modify the value under Select the amount of space in MB. When done, click Next. From the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, accept the default, choose another drive letter, or select the option to mount the volume in an empty NTFS folder if desired. Then click Next. PASO 3. PASO 4. Seleccionamos en Disponibles los que queramos y pulsamos Agregar. PASO 5. Elegimos una de las opciones y pulsamos en Siguiente.