What is a spanned volume?
Are you preparing for IT certification? With practice questions, study notes, interactive quizzes, tips and technical articles, uCertify PrepKits ensure that you get a solid grasp of core technical concepts to ace your certification exam in first attempt.
What is a spanned volume?
Rating:
A spanned volume is a dynamic volume supported by the Windows XP Professional operating system. It combines free space from different hard disk drives installed on a computer. In a spanned volume, the amount of disk space used from each hard disk is not identical. It can contain disk space from two to thirty-two disks. When a user needs to extend a simple volume that is running low on disk space, he can create the spanned volume by including additional space from different hard disks. Spanned volumes are not fault tolerant and cannot be mirrored or striped. If any of the disks containing the spanned volume fails, all data in the entire spanned volume is lost.
Rating:
Was this information helpful?
Other articles
- What is the User State Migration Tool (USMT)?
- What are the characteristics of ICF?
- How to enable an ICMP component on a network computer in Windows XP?
- Privacy And Security Features Of Internet Explorer
- What are the issues involved in removing and disabling devices?