Difference between basic disk and dynamic disk

Basic disk

Dynamic disk

A basic disk uses normal partition tables or logical drives to manage all partitions and data on the hard disk

dynamic disk is initialized for dynamic storage.

 

It is the most common storage type used with Windows.

 

It gives more flexibility than a basic disk because it does not use a partition table to keep track of all partitions.

 

A basic disk can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives

Instead, it uses dynamic volumes to manage data. A dynamic disk can contain simple, spanned, stripped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes.

 

Operations that can be performed on a basic disk include creating and deleting primary and extended partitions, creating and deleting logical drives within an extended partition, formatting a partition, and marking it as active.

 

Operations that can be performed on a dynamic disk include creating and deleting simple, spanned, stripped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes; extending a simple or spanned volume; repairing mirrored or RAID-5 volumes; and reactivating a missing or offline disk

 

 

 


 

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