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→An Overview of Dynamic Disks
* '''Mirrored Volume''' - Also referred to as RAID 1, disk mirroring involves writing the same data to two drives such that if one drive fails an exact copy of the data is available on the second disk. The primary purpose of disk mirroring is data redundancy and disaster recovery.
* '''RAID 5 Volume''' - RAID 5 is a variation of volume striping. With RAID 5 striping is used in conjunction with parity error checking such that the data can continue to be used in the event that one of the drive drives fails. The parity information can also be used to restore data in the event of a failure using ''regeneration''. RAID 5 requires 3 or more disks and is designed to provide fault tolerance.
