Windows 2000 introduced the concepts of basic disks and dynamic disks and added them to the Windows system administrator's arsenal of tools. What's the difference between the two? Let's look at ...

In a very small nutshell, dynamic disks let you do things basic disks can't, like resizing volumes and making volumes span multiple disks (including software RAID 0/1/5).

Hey, I've got a question for you guys. This might possibly belong in the Microsoft Software forum, since I think it's a Windows-only thing, but I'm giving it a shot here.What is a Dynamic Disk ...

If a basic disk can be hot expanded and can be a GPT partition, it seems like the only reason left for using dynamic disk is for disk subsystems that don't support RAID configurations. Since Windows ...