Hi everyone .....
DM Quote...... "it seemed to get ignored". ;
DM ... We are only human .... even I find it hard mentally keeping track of all the input that gets posted .... and rereading the posts in there entirety just is not an option all the time due to there size.
But probably a good time to reflect on a few things that have come to light with this post, ...
"Windows cannot boot off a 3TB or larger hard drive, without UEFI, 2TB / 2048GB is the limit". Quote by
Lsdmeasap ... This is important for obvious reasons, but more importantly touches on what drives or the combination of drives we should be using in our systems.
Hard-drives have always loosely been referred to as storage devices .... This term is now more pointed with the introduction of multi-Terabyte drives .... that is they should be treated for just that ..... "Storage"
SSD manufactures did not follow suit with the numbers applied to HD (320Gb, 500Gb, 1000Gb ect) mainly because of cost ....NAN/FLASH chips are not cheap ...... So they adopted 60 and 120, 240 ...... one of the reasons was they concluded a 60Gb SSD would be enough room to install even the most bloated OS and a few programs leaving other, cheaper drive to take up the storage overhead required....This is good logic!
This makes good sense if you factor in your pocket as well .... if you want to use a 3Tb drive for storage .... the UEFI/GPT systems can be utilized spanning up to 3 or 4 of these larger drives for a massive storage capacity leaving the OS alone in it's own environment......
"Very rarely will storage data be corrupted or lost if the OS is on a separate partition or physical drive"..... probably one of the best
"Tips and Tricks" I have ever been given
I have used a separate, faster drive for my OS in all my systems for a few years now .... but have taken this information for granted .... far too many people still think the best way forward, is to have a single , large, Multiterabyte drive to handle every thing .... OS, Programs, Docs, photo's......Bloody scary just typing what some people put on to one single drive
So think of .....a fast SSD for :C, (OS) ..... and slower large platered drive for storage ....
Aussie Allan