There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic Disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical ...

As dynamic disks provide more superiorities than basic, it is a justification that dynamic volumes are widely used. But the disk management under Windows is limited, such as users are not able to ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

I plugged my external HD into my laptop today, after spending the previous part of its life plugged into the desktop I got rid of.<BR><BR>As I expected, the disk is listed as Foreign and Dynamic under ...

I had a pair of 4TB drives in a RAID1 running off an onboard Intel Rapid Storage controller (fake RAID), but performance was horrible - like 1/2 to 3/4 of rated drive speed. I decided begrudgingly to ...