Partition 3tb drive


  1. baccini
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    Partition 3tb drive


    Hi ive just installed a 3TB storage drive gpt and created one partition,would it be safer if there were several partitions for data storage. if so can i now create more partitions on the drive.
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  3. Pedroc1999
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    Make two 1.5tb partitions so windows recognises them and then format them to ntfs
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  4. LittleJay
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    baccini said:
    Hi ive just installed a 3TB storage drive gpt and created one partition,would it be safer if there were several partitions for data storage. if so can i now create more partitions on the drive.
    Hi baccini. Creating more than 1 partition on your drive will not make it safer if the drive ever fails.
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  6. Pedroc1999
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    To make it safe you would have to get another drive and backup on a daily/ weekly basis to that drive
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  7. baccini
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    Thanks for the reply's I think i might just leave it the way it is then,back up any important files to another drive
    cheers.
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  8. Pedroc1999
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    Yess but Baccini, windows will only recognsie 2tb of it, you must still partition it to 1.5tb each or similar
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  10. baccini
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    no thats not true windows 7 64bit and the drive set up gpt not mbr sees all 3tb well 2.72 i think it should be larger but dont know what size?
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  11. Pedroc1999
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    Sorry. I assumed you needed the format to be ntfs. Sorry for the confusion
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