Help with mirroring drives


  1. Barry144
    Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Professional
       New #1

    Help with mirroring drives


    I'm running Windows 7 Professional and I'm looking for confirmation that I will be able to mirror two 10TB USB 3.0 external drives that I'm about to purchase. I've been poking around Disk Management and it appears that what I need to do is specify the drives as dynamic disks and create a "new mirrored volume." Is that correct?

    I'm concerned because I notice that on an existing 5TB USB drive of mine, it will not allow me to convert from basic to dynamic disk, returning "The operation is not supported by the object." Is dynamic disk (and mirroring) supported on external USB drives?
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

  3. samuria
    Posts : 3,788
    win 8 32 bit
       New #2

    Welcome too the forum. With external drive of that size its possible but could give problems with power and cpu use it may be better to just clone the disk every week
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

 

  Related Discussions
Windows mirroring
in Performance & Maintenance

Hello, I have a work laptop, HP ZBook 17 G2, with a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. This laptop I use with the HP 230W Advanced Docking station that has an integrated SATA upgrade bay. I have an identical 1TB drive plugged into that. Windows is installed to the SSD on C:\. I have my profile...
mirroring drives in windows 7.
in Backup and Restore

I think I just did something stupid? Can you not mirror an OS drive? I just set up a mirror drive and it converted both my source and destination to a dynamic disk. I'm ok with the mirror disc being dynamic but I'm thinking my OS disk is now not bookable? So now I need to break the mirror...
Mirroring drives
in General Discussion

I have built several new workstations for my shop. I have 5 Windows 7 keys and pretty much other than the hardware specs all the stations will have the same programs. A buddy of mine suggested mirroring?? I was curious to know the best way to do this. I thought about installing the OS, not...
How dependable is mirroring 2 external USB drives through disk management?
I read alot here, but never really found an answer to my question. I have an Intel Desktop Board DX48BT2, its supports about everything. Intel Desktop Board DX48BT2 - Overview I have Windows7 64bit ultimate. My C drive is a 300 gig raptor and I don't want to change that. I want to...
Our Sites
Site Links
About Us
Windows 7 Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. "Windows 7" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

 © Designer Media Ltd
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:03.
Find Us