Win10 partition method "dynamic" or "basic" for HDD

[riotubes]

Hi,

Do you recommend "basic" or "dynamic" volume/partition method in Windows 10?

I plan to format a new 4TB HDD to be used for 3 purposes:

1. An secondary disk for windows paging file. Size = 3xRAM = 50 GB
2. data drive (mydocs, music, video, photo, downloads, etc.) ~3.45 GB
3. space for a image of my OS + apps of ~500GB

The OS and apps are on a separate SDD.

Thanks

 

[bigdogchris]

Dynamic volumes are more flexible long term. But based on what you're describing either will work.

 

[aliona]

Personally, unless this is very good software or it has very big benefits, I would leave it is a basic disk - I deal with many removable disks and I use basic on all of them.

 

[riotubes]

Thanks for your feedback. I decided not to partition the disk.

 

[Snowknight26]

Thanks for your feedback. I decided not to partition the disk.

So you aren't going to be using it?

 

[riotubes]

I probably have the terminology wrong. I was thinking of creating multiple partitions. I'm just using one.