Solved seconday ssd

madmecca

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I a bit stuck at the minute I have just put in a second ssd for just games and storage.in windows disk manager which type of partition do I set it to mbr or gpt this is not for my windows that's on another ssd thanks
 

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MBR will work just fine on that SSD,you will not need GPT.
 

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Performance wise, it does not make any difference. GPT style support large HD > 2TB and can create more than 4 primary partitions. SSD is not even close to that size. So you can use either but personnaly I set it to MBR because if you happen to have a need to access/read from third party boot disk, some of them can't read GPT.
 

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I have two SSD's in my laptop. The one with Windows installed on it is GPT. The second DATA drive is MBR. I just accepted the defaults when I partitioned and formatted the second drive. No iisues with my setup that I know of.
 

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Thanks for the help all sorted now
 

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    Windows 8.1 pro 64bit
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    MADMECCA SYSTEMS
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    I7 5930K H100I
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    msi x99 gaming 9 ack
    Memory
    16gb g.skill ripjaws 4 2400mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    msi gtx 970 sli
    Sound Card
    sound blaster z
    Monitor(s) Displays
    samsung series 9 / asus vg248qe
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440 60hz / 1920x1080 144hz
    Hard Drives
    2tb Seagate
    3tb Seagate
    120gb sandisk ssd
    Samsung 840 evo 120gb /samsung 840 evo250gb
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    corsair 1200i
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    corsair 900d
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    corsair h100i
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    logitech g710+
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    rat 7
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    65/15
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    ie 11
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