largest SATAIII hard drive that can be used as a single

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Hi,
What is the largest SATAIII hard drive that can be used as a single
patrician with windows 8.1 64 bit formatted NTFS?
 

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Hi,
What is the largest SATAIII hard drive that can be used as a single
patrician with windows 8.1 64 bit formatted NTFS?

2 terabytes should be considered the practical limit for both physical and logical volumes using NTFS.
 

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Differences Between MBR and GPT Disks:
  • MBR disks are supported (readable) by all Windows operating systems.
    • GPT disks are only supported (readable) by Windows server 2003 SP1 +, XP 64-bit, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8, and above.
  • MBR disks use the standard BIOS partition table.
    • GPT disks use UEFI.
  • MBR disks supports up to 2TB per single partition.
    • GPT disks supports up to 256TB per single partition in Windows.
  • MBR disks supports up to 4 Primary partitions or 3 Primary partitions and 1 Extended partition with up to 128 logical volumes in the extended partition.
    • GPT disks supports up to 128 Primary partitions.
  • Removable disks are MBR disks by default.
    • Removable disks cannot be converted into a GPT disk.

Source: Brink Tutorial
 

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