Basic vs Dynamic

[JimmyNeutron]

Hi,
I did a search and read a about five articles on this subject and I believe I understand most of it.

My question, which I did not find an answer to, is this.
I'm using the ICH7R(D975BX2 motherboard) and ICH9R(Rampage Formula motherboard) for RAID1(two 500gb HD) and from what I read, Basic would be prefer over Dynamic.
Could someone please help confirm this?

There doesn't seem to be much benefits to using Dynamic. I can go from Basic to Dynamic, but not the other way around.

Sounds like the only advantage to Dynamic is the ability to do JBOD. Is that all?

Thanks!

 

[Zardoz]

thats right

 

[JimmyNeutron]

Thanks! I guess I'll stick with Basic as that seems the safest way to go.

 

[hasoos]

While Dynamic does allow you to add space, etc, it comes with a performance hit. It happens to be if you create a dynamic volume, the write size is limited to 64k because of a software limitation. Because of this, with large writes, it can cause a lot of disk cuing which degrades performance badly. So that being said, stick with basic unless it is just some slow storage that needs expanded every once in a while.