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BlackJesus27

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Hello everybody.
i have just changed my primary storage drive (seagate barracuda 1tb) into a dynamic drive. i have a few questions that i have not been able to find any answers to so here they are:
1. i have an ssd in my system and if i put windows 10 on it when it comes out will i keep the data on the dynamic drive (kind of a stupid question but still :) )
2.will there be a bit of slowdown in the hdd's performance
3. is there any way to convert the drive back to a basic without any data loss
4.what are some of the drawbacks to having a dynamic drive

thankyou, feedback would be much appreciated :)

system specs:

Gtx 970 zotac
Fractal design define R5
a sandisk 256 gb ssd
wd caviar blue 1tb basic
seagate barracuda 1tb dynamic
8 Gb 1600mhz ram DDR3
asus sabertooth R2.0 FX990
hyper 212 evo
FX 6300 overclocked to 4,2 ghz (removing dat bottleneck XD)
some old DVD RW sata 3 drive
couple corsair af 120's and the 2 140 mm fans that fractal include with the case.

Hope you have a nice day :)!
 
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SuperSoph_WD
Hey there, BlackJesus27! Welcome to the community!

Unfortunately, there is always a potential for data loss when tempering with the storage drives, so the best way to avoid this is to do regular back ups of all your data and keep in different locations (storage devices).

You can update your primary HDD to an SSD with just the OS on it without facing any loss of performance. However, the most important thing to keep in mind here is to unplug all other storage devices from the motherboard when installing Windows. Otherwise you'd be facing the consequences of OS confusion which would require you to re-install from scratch again and it might mess up the partitions on your secondary HDDs.

You can change the default safe/download...
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1 - yes
2 - no slowdown moving between OSs
3 - why would you want to? Pretty sure there is, Google it
4 - I'm assuming you mean dynamic as in SSD/HDD combination? SSHD? There are no drawbacks as such, only that it is a tad more expensive than traditional HDDs.
 
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Hey there, BlackJesus27! Welcome to the community!

Unfortunately, there is always a potential for data loss when tempering with the storage drives, so the best way to avoid this is to do regular back ups of all your data and keep in different locations (storage devices).

You can update your primary HDD to an SSD with just the OS on it without facing any loss of performance. However, the most important thing to keep in mind here is to unplug all other storage devices from the motherboard when installing Windows. Otherwise you'd be facing the consequences of OS confusion which would require you to re-install from scratch again and it might mess up the partitions on your secondary HDDs.

You can change the default safe/download location to one of the HDDs as well, so it won't fill your SSD. Here's a tutorial that explains how to do that: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html

Converting a dynamic disk back to basic could be performed without formatting the HDD, but I'd still back up beforehand. Here's a tutorial from MS you can use: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html

As for the pros and cons of dynamic disks, they can create volumes that span multiple HDDs and also gives you the chance to expand to spanned, mirrored, RAID, etc. . Whereas basic disks use normal partition tables and it can hold only primary and extended partitions, and logical drives. Another thing that could be considered an advantage with the dynamic disks is that you can perform disk/volume management without restarting the OS.

Hope this answers your questions. Let me know if you have more! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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