logical disk

Logical disks provide a certain amount of space to store data.

What the operating system shows the user is sometimes called logical disk.

There are many ways to define a logical disk or volume.

The operating system will show each partition like a logical disk.

Multiple disks can be combined to form a single large logical disk, or volume set.

Logical disks can be defined at various levels in the storage infrastructure stack.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware platform.

The user will only see the logical disk.

A logical disk is a concept from computing.

This encryption is backed by a logical disk management system known as Core Storage.

A little more information about each drive, á la Logical Disk Manager, would have been useful.

With RAID, several hard disks are made into one logical disk.

As larger hard disks have come into use, a cylinder has become also a logical disk structure, standardised at 16 065 sectors ().

With RAID different disks can be put together to get a logical disk.

All that is visible of a SAN is a number of logical disks.

Though not technically correct, the term "LUN" is often also used to refer to the logical disk itself.

In a virtual environment, the logical disk (LUN) is assigned the capacity required by the using host.

Unlike real (called physical) hard disks that can be touched, logical disks can take this storage space from different locations.

But RAID can also work with logical disks.

That way one of the RAID levels above can be used with a set of logical disks.

A new logical disk can be simply allocated from the available pool, or an existing disk can be expanded.

This means that more than one physical disks are RAID-ed together to produce a single logical disk.

Windows 2000 introduced the Logical Disk Manager and the diskpart command line tool for dynamic storage.

A RAID array joins two or more hard disks so that they make a logical disk.

A logical disk is a device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical disk drive components in a computer system.