Mark,
If you want to use dynamic disks, and create a mirrored volume or
soft-raid-5, then I would say, there is no benifit.
Hardware RAID is always (!!) the preferred option.
You can however use dynamic disks to create a large volume which spans
multiple disks.
So if you need a volume which is larger than the capacity of the physical
disks presented to your host, you can use dynamic spanned volumes.
Personally, and this is my opinion, I don't like big volumes, as "thing go
wrong" the time it takes to repair outweights the benifits.
Large volumes are easier to manage, but a chkdsk will take longer, while
smaller volumes are harder to manage, but when things go corrupt, only part
of your effective storage is affected, and operations like chkdsk will
complete in less time.
(others might have a different view on this, again this is my opinion)
For best practices with dynamic disks see :
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;816307
HTH
_Edwin.
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