I have always assigned letters (E:, F:, G:, etc) to volumes but I know that they can also be mounted to empty NTFS folders. I assume that one advantage about this last approach is to save letters and use them when necessary.

 

Is there any disadvantage in mounting a volume to a NTFS folder instead of assignig a letter to it? Why should I or should I not use this approach?

 

Respectfully,

Jorge Maldonado

I see that mounting a volume to a folder is a technique already used by other operating systems like Unix. It is, in fact, new to Windows Server. According to what I read, it is a good approach and practice to use it and save letters for special situations.

Well as you said there's no difference. The problem is with big environment because if you have 30 disks to map you haven't enough letters. Anyway a mount point is a mount point. When you open the network share \\mydomain\myshare this is already a mount point but "on the fly" not fixed.

 

For me there's no difference / drawback.