Striped Volumes

A striped volume utilizes the space of two hard disks. A striped volume can expand the space for 32 disks. The data in a striped volume is divided into blocks, known as stripes. The data is stored simultaneously in two disks and a maximum of 32 hard disks. These hard disks are also known as stripe set. A stripe set is not fault tolerant. Therefore, if one hard disk crashes then you cannot access the data on any of the disks in the volume set. You must convert your basic disks to dynamic disks before you create a striped volume.

create a striped volume:

1. Open Computer Management console. The Computer Management console appears.

2. Expand Storage.

3. Click Disk Management. Disk Management lists the disks.

4. Select one of the disk for which you want to create a striped volume.

5. Select Action > All Tasks > New Volume. The New Volume Wizard appears.

6. Click Next. The Select Volume Type screen appears.

7. Click the Striped option.

8. Click Next. The Select Disks screen appears.

9. Click Disk 0 9099 MB from the Available list.

10. Click Add. The disk is added to the Selected list.

11. Click Next. The Assign Drive Letter or Path screen appears.

12. Select a drive letter for the volume.

13. Click Next. The Format Volume screen appears,

14. Select NTFS from the file system drop down box.

15. Select the Perform a quick format check box.

16. Click Next. The Completing the New Volume Wizard screen appears.

17. Click Finish. Windows Server formats the volume and Disk Management console appears.