COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
WHAT IS A HARD DRIVE
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Dynamic disk
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Basic disk
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Storage Spaces
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Mounted drive
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Detailed explanation-1: -RAID employs the techniques of disk mirroring or disk striping. Mirroring will copy identical data onto more than one drive. Striping partitions help spread data over multiple disk drives. Each drive’s storage space is divided into units ranging from a sector of 512 bytes up to several megabytes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Basic disks are the same types used in older versions of Windows and NT and are limited in what they can do. Basic disks can support up to four primary partitions or three primaries and one extended. Dynamic disks are more flexible than basic disks and can span multiple volumes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Basic disk uses normal partition tables found in MS-DOS and Windows to manage all partitions on the hard disk. In dynamic disk, a hard drive is divided into dynamic volumes. Each hard drive can hold up to 3 or 4 partitions and there is one secondary-extended partition.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dynamic disk is an enhanced partition table in Windows that enables enhanced features such as software raid. Also, every time you want to use it on a new computer, or even if you just remove and put it in, you will have to manually import the disk.