making an Striped disk

[dimiav]

how come I cant make a striped volume?

I have 2 Disks:
Model WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0
Model WDC WD15EADS-00R6B0

here's a pic of my Disk Manager:
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3383/disks.jpg

I want to create a striped volume for Page File.
when i am trying to left click on unallocated space in the first disk (dynamic disc) the option for striped disk is grayed out, when i am trying the same thing on second disk (basic disk) the options are available but the when i suppose to choose a disk to stripe the volume with it only shows me himself

i red from windows technet article that the two disks suppose to be dynamic, is that right?

should i convert the second disk to dynamic?

 

[SIW2]

Overview of Disk Management

We used to be big fans of dynamic disks.

A dynamic disk complicates the disaster recovery process, and we dislike anything that creates potential issues in a disaster recovery scenario. We definitely don't think dynamic disks are appropriate for a system disk. And we just have a hard time seeing where the upside is given the functionality that your hardware RAID controller or SAN array management application provides.

... avoid converting your system disk to dynamic.

 

[dimiav]

yes but will i be able to make a striped volume if i convert it to dynamic?
like you can see in the print screen:
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3383/disks.jpg

the free space i want to use in the second disk is free space from expanded partition

 

[dimiav]

anyone can help?

 

[SIW2]

Create a Striped Volume

 

[dimiav]

so if i understood it right i must convert it to dynamic

is it possible that I will experience a performance issue or any other problems because of converting a disk where is a system partition?

 

[SIW2]

I think your system drive is already on a Dynamic Disk.

Might be a good idea to convert it to a Basic Disk.

Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk


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You can than move your page file to the other Basic disk if you really want to.

 

[Wishmaster]

Stripped raid? NO, I do not think so.

Raid arrays really need to be 2 disks of the same size. (partitioned however you like)
So as they are the same size and speed.

using different sizes will result in a raid of the smallest drive size x2
I/e a 1000GB drive and a 250GB drive will result in a 500GB raid with 750GB unallocated on the 1TB drive.

I do not think you can have 2 drives of different sizes & partitions, with a RAID stripe at the end

please correct me if i am mis-understanding, but this is how i always understood it.

If the purpose is to move the pagefile, why not just move it to your second disk?

 

[dimiav]

No,
here's a Print Screen of Striped Partition On Different Sized Disks (This is a Virtual Machine Of Win Server 2003):
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/79/diskk.jpg

But I Still, Don't Understand What is the issue of having a System Partition on a Dynamic Disk?

making a striped disk suppose to be much faster than just moving the Page File to different disk
What i have now is two disks and an Operation System on each one of them.

the one with XP is a Dynamic Disk
the one with windows 7 is on Basic

 

[dimiav]

Done It!
Works Great!