Which is better between basic disk and dynamic disk?

Partition Magic is one of the excellent disk management software, but it also can not realize many disk management operations. As various types of programs and file size increase continuously, we find a single disk can not meet our storage demands. Therefore, more and more users begin to use multiple disks to store data. For managing multiple disks, dynamic disk management is the best way. Users who are familiar with Partition Magic know Partition Magic can not offer dynamic disk management functions although it can offer outstanding performance for basic disk management. That is because Partition Magic is specially designed for basic disk. Therefore, we need a dynamic disk manager.

Which is better between basic disk and dynamic disk?
Compared with basic disk, dynamic disk has many advantages. In partition number and data safety, basic can not compare with dynamic disk. When we partition basic disk with Partition Magic, partition number is restricted among 26 English letters, namely drive letter must be one of the letters from A to Z. Although common users do not set so many partitions, partition number will exceed 26 under some special situations. At this time, we need to convert basic disk to dynamic disk, because dynamic disk manages hard disk in volume and there is no limit on volume number. For data safety, we can create mirrored volume and RAID-5 volume on the dynamic disk. Mirrored volume offers us the function of data backup and RAID-5 has fault tolerance. These two kinds of volumes can ensure data safety. Therefore, basic disk has weaker data protection. Thus it can be seen that dynamic disk can meet our current demands and protect data better. We can not deny Partition Magic is an excellent partition magic for basic disk. However, if you want to use dynamic disk, MiniTool Partition Wizard, the best dynamic disk manager, is your best choice.

Partition magic software for managing dynamic disk
MiniTool Partition Wizard is such a kind of professional disk management software supporting both basic disk and dynamic disk. When we manage dynamic disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard, we can create various types of volumes, including simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume and RAID-5 volume. At the same time, this dynamic disk manager also can help us manage these dynamic volumes, such as delete volume, resize volume, wipe volume, and format volume. All dynamic disk management functions can be found from this dynamic disk manager. Next, let me demonstrate how to create mirrored volume.

If you are individual user or home user, you can free download this partition magic from its official website http://www.partitionwizard.com. After opening this partition magic, we can see its main interface.



In the above interface, select any dynamic volume and click "Create" functional button.



Select the type of the volume. Here, we select mirrored volume, and then click "Next" to enter the next step.



In the above interface, select the destination disks to create the volume on, and then click "Next" functional button.



Next, set volume size, cluster size, file system and other performance like the above interface. Then, click "Finish" to go back to the main interface.



In the main interface, we can see the mirrored volume has been created. After confirming our operations, click "Apply" to perform all pending operations.
Note: when we manage volumes with MiniTool Partition Wizard, every interface will offer corresponding prompts to help us accomplish dynamic disk management successfully.