SageTV V2 and Dynamic Disks

[Karen0302]

Before actually doing it, I thought I would if anyone has tried using SageTV version 2 with dynamic disks. So has anyone had any experiences with this, good, nad or otherwise?

Karen

[stanger89]

If you are talking spanning two disks into one volume it's already been done (the merits of that technique were quite thoroughly argued in another thread).

If you mean two disks, set up as separate dynamic volumes, I see no reason why that would cause any problems.

[jominor]

Originally posted by Karen0302
Before actually doing it, I thought I would if anyone has tried using SageTV version 2 with dynamic disks. So has anyone had any experiences with this, good, nad or otherwise?

Karen

I did it. I had a 20, 30, and 60 gig drives combined into a single 110gig partition. I used those in conjunction with a 200g basic disk drive for approx 310gigs of storage.

The 200, BTW, was connected using a USB2 enclosure.

I didn't encounter any problems.

[Narflex]

I used to do this with SageTV. I had a bad experience because there's something that there was no way to undo...but I couldn't recall what it was.

I think it might have been that there was no way at all to remove a disk from a dynamic volume once its been added without losing all of its data. Be sure to read about the limitations before you do it. I know PartitionMagic can't read things that use Dynamic Disks.

[AndyS]

You couldn't restore a Ghost backup to a dynamic partition. Maybe that's what you were thinking of? I have a feeling that's no longer a restriction but I can't be sure.

(You can create ghost images from dynamic disks, just not restore to a dynamic disk).

Andy.