Partition 3tb drive

[baccini]

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.

 

[Pedroc1999]

Make two 1.5tb partitions so windows recognises them and then format them to ntfs

 

[LittleJay]

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.

 

[Pedroc1999]

To make it safe you would have to get another drive and backup on a daily/ weekly basis to that drive

 

[baccini]

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.

 

[Pedroc1999]

Yess but Baccini, windows will only recognsie 2tb of it, you must still partition it to 1.5tb each or similar

 

[baccini]

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?

 

[Pedroc1999]

Sorry. I assumed you needed the format to be ntfs. Sorry for the confusion