2 TB: Using GUID File Allocation Tables (GPT GUID Partition Table)
2 TB Drives have been around a while and certainly building raid arrays over 2 TB has been possible for quite some time. If you haven’t stumbled across this read on. Why GPT? GUID Partition Table disks can grow to a very large size. As of July 2001, the Microsoft implementation supports a hard disk of up to 18 EB (Exabyte equal 1000 Terabytes). It is not that I am predicting Exabyte drives soon but more that Master Boot Record tops out at 2 TB. GPT is the partition table to use if you plan on exceeding 2 TB. How … Continue reading 2 TB: Using GUID File Allocation Tables (GPT GUID Partition Table)