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Basic hard disk New HDD Supports partitions Partitions are 1. Primary 2. Extended 3.

Logical

Dynamic hard disk converted from basic hard disk supports volumes volumes are 1.simple 2.spanned 3.srtipped 4. Mirrored 5. Raid-5 Does provide fault tolerance Does provide load balancing No limitation on no. of partition

Does not provide fault tolerance Does not provide load balancing Maximum 4 primary partition per disk 3 primary+1 extended or 4 primary 1 extended can contain as many as logical. Volume Name Simple Spanned Stripped Mirrored Raid-5 Min.No.OF Disk 1 2 2 2 3 FaultTolerance no no no Yes Yes

LoadBalancing No Yes Yes no Yes

NOTE: 1) Fault Tolerance:-if one hard disk gets fail another will work 2) Load balancing:-dividing load to more than two hard disk To manage disk and drives Disk Management utility is use.

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