Issues With >2TB Storage?

[Leo625]

My Windows 7 monster uses MBR and I am very happy with it. I have two drives that are 4TB so I was reading on MS site that 7 can read more than 2TB by making the drives GPT. That sounds good to me except in the MS article there are several watch outs to doing this. The article is updated this year. So can anyone tell me if they have had trouble accessing all of a >2TB drive using Windows 7 and GPT? The articles states 7 might only read above or maybe even below 2TB so Windows won't see the rest of the drive and there is also the possibility Windows won't see the drive correctly. Any opinions? I'm thinking just split the drives might be best.

Thanks!

 

[SIW2]

you will be fine using gpt.

 

[Leo625]

That's great news. Thanks SIW2! I am going to set up a small NAS soon and trying to get my ducks in a row.

 

[SIW2]

If you are thinking of using an nvme disk at any stage, there are a couple of updates for win7 at the bottom of all my posts.

 

[Megahertz07]

That's great news. Thanks SIW2! I am going to set up a small NAS soon and trying to get my ducks in a row.

GPT drives can be used as DATA drives on Win 7 64 and 32 bits.
GPT drives can ONLY be used as boot able drives on Win 7 64 bits and UEFI BIOS.
Some MBR drives are Advanced Format (AF) , uses a larger cluster size and can be larger than 2.2T.

NAS devices has it's own OS (Normally Linux) and is formatted as ext4 . You should read the NAS manual.

 

[Leo625]

Okay guys thanks for the feedback. Definitely going to RTFM. I already have all the hardware, just a matter of following the rules.