A a basic disk It is, as the name implies, a hard disk with a basic configuration. Used since MS-DOS and Windows NT sessions and today it's still the default option that Windows puts on our drivers hard unless we tell otherwise.
However, since the time of Windows 2000 we have an option set as a dynamic disk (and in fact it's something we can do later, that is, we can turn a basic disk into a dynamic one), a configuration that provides a hard disk for various features, so let's take a look at what they combine and what benefits it gives us to make this change.
What is a powerful disk and what does it offer?
A dynamic disk is simply its structure, not necessarily a different type of disk (in other words, any hard disk can be configured as basic or dynamic regardless of Hardware). The main difference is basically it works with vibrating volumes instead of separators, which allows you to make changes to your configuration that do not allow basic disks, such as increasing or decreasing the size of an already created volume.
Dynamic volume cannot be continuous, that is, the primary volume can be maximized by expanding it to an undivided disk space, without needing to be close to it. Additionally, you can create high-quality ideas that include RAID locations
As a general rule, many users we can survive completely with basic discs since the normal thing is to always build one volume per disk volume. For example, if we have a hard disk for 1 TB, we will create a volume (or partition in this case, for a basic disk) of 1 TB.
Advantages and disadvantages
So, the benefits of converting a basic disk into a dynamic dynamic basically when it comes to "playing" in its stages because we actually won't use partitions like that, but the volumes inside it. Therefore, we can make larger or smaller volumes, we can adjust RAID volumes, and we can customize the space allocated to each.
The main disadvantage of using a compact disk in comparison to a base is that does not support multi-brakes configuration, which means we can't have fewer apps installed on the same hard drive so we can choose between them in a boot, something that is enabled by basic disks.