3TB Disk Partition S/w needed

Grazie wrote on 2/17/2015, 10:54 AM

I've leapt - rather more stumbled - across the 2TB divide . . . . I need to make partitions to make use of that extra TB on a newly purchased Hitachi 3TB. - Choices of s/w to do the partitions of 1.5TB + 1.5TB? Links? Try-outs?

Cheers

Grazie

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Kit wrote on 2/18/2015, 6:29 PM

I have several 3TB+ drives formatted using GPT in an external bay. They show up as non-removable in Windows but when the system is off I can remove/replace them without problems. Perhaps the info you read refers to hot-swapping? That I wouldn't try.

Grazie wrote on 2/18/2015, 8:40 PM

Kit, thanks for the reassurance.

How many 3TB HDs do you use in this way?

Grazie

Kit wrote on 2/18/2015, 9:12 PM

Hi, We have 4 Western Digital 3 TB drives and 2 Hitatchi 4 TB drives. We use them in drive bays connected via USB3

Rob Franks wrote on 2/18/2015, 11:11 PM

My mobo has 8 sata ports. I run six 4TB drives and one optical drive, and my OS drive (ssd). All GPT format with no issues. They're in hot swappable drive bays, but GPT drives over 2TB do not show up as hot swappable. As noted above you can swap with the power off but it is not advised to do it with the power on.