David works as a Network Administrator for NetTech Inc. The company has a Windows Server 2008 domain-based network. The network has a print server with two hard disks as basic disks, and 120 Windows…

A striped volume writes data in stripes evenly across two or more physical disks simultaneously, which increases both read and write throughput by parallelizing disk I/O. For a print server experiencing slow printing due to disk I/O bottlenecks, striping the spool volume across the two available basic disks - converted to dynamic - directly improves performance.

A spanned volume combines areas of free space from multiple disks into one logical volume, increasing capacity but providing no performance improvement because data is written sequentially to each disk.

A RAID-5 volume distributes data with parity across three or more disks for fault tolerance; it requires a minimum of three disks and is not available with only two disks as described in the scenario.

A mirrored volume (RAID-1) duplicates all data across two disks for fault tolerance and redundancy, which does not improve write performance and can actually reduce it compared to a single disk.