[SOLVED] formatting a 14TB hardisk

[velocci]

Hi all, I popped in my new Ironwolf 14TB hardrive into my win10 machine and the first thing it asks is to initialize it using either MBR or GPT. this HDD will store a backup of my data. Which of those should I choose?

 

[RealBeast]

GPT! All drives over 2.2TB must be GPT initialized, and then select NTFS format type for Windows.

Otherwise you get a 2.2TB drive with a lot of unusable space.

 

[velocci]

ok thanks

 

[velocci]

12.7TB now. 🙁

 

[USAFRet]

12.7TB now. 🙁

Which is exactly correct for a "14TB" drive.

Same as 1TB = 931GB
2TB = 1.81TB
etc.

Simply a difference in units.

 

[TerryLaze]

12.7TB now. 🙁

the computer uses gibibytes while humans use gigabytes as units
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte