Your organization mandates that Windows dynamic disks be used for software-based fault tolerance rather than Storage Spaces. After installing Windows Server 2022, you see three identical 1 TB SSDs listed as basic GPT disks in Disk Management. You must create one volume that will stay online if any single drive fails and will maximize usable capacity. Which action in Disk Management achieves this goal?
Convert all three disks to dynamic and create a RAID-5 volume spanning them.
Leave the disks as basic and create a spanned volume that uses all three drives.
Convert one disk to dynamic and create a striped volume across the three disks.
Convert any two of the disks to dynamic and create a mirrored volume across those disks.
Converting all three drives to dynamic disks unlocks Windows' dynamic-disk volume types. A RAID-5 dynamic volume stripes data and parity across a minimum of three disks, so the array can survive the loss of any one disk while providing N-1 capacity (≈2 TB usable from 3 × 1 TB).
Spanned volumes merely concatenate space and provide no redundancy.
Mirrored volumes are fault-tolerant but require exactly two disks and cut usable capacity in half (only 1 TB of the 3 TB would be available).
A striped (RAID 0) volume distributes data for performance but fails completely if any member disk fails. Therefore, the only option that meets both the fault-tolerance and capacity requirements is to convert all three disks to dynamic and create a RAID-5 volume.