https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B093BVQYYM/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile I bought the above to back up system disk and other disks It was exfat and gpt but my.disks are NTFS and mbr it had some software but this is gone as i formatted it to NTFS. Was this the right thing to do? Should make a partition for each disk? I will be using Aomie anyway Sorry if i should not put link is there a no link rule?
The Legacy-MBR formatting has partition size (and number of) restrictions, especially if you want to use all of that storage in only 1-partition. If you're using Windows 7 or newer, GPT would be a better approach for that disk and you wont have any practical partition size (or number of) restrictions of any sort.
A MBR disk supports 2^32 sectors. 4,294,967,296 sectors. If your sectors are 512 bytes 4294967296 *512 = 2,199,023,255,552 bytes This is = 2 TiB (a TiB is 2^40 bytes) If your sectors are 4K native 4294967296 * 4096 = 17592186044416 bytes This is = 16 TiB But as TRF says, GPT is a better choice than MBR. I'd have the 6 TB HD as a GPT disk with a single partition and different folders for each job.
My computer has only Bios. Can i restore from gpt to mbr? And if the 6 TB is mbr do i only get to use 2 TB of it?
Yes, no problem. You don't need UEFI firmware for GPT disks. If the 6 TB HD has 4k native sectors you can use the entire disk space as a MBR disk. If the HD doesn't have 4k native sectors you can only use 2 TiB of the disk.
How do i find if it has 4k native sectors. EDIT It says 512/4k It was ex fat I made it NTFS So i can back/restore from it to /from my mbr PC?
512/4K says it has 512-byte sectors and 4096-byte cluster size. As Brian said, you will be limited to 2-terabyte partition sizes... a limit you don't need. reBuild as a GPT drive with NTFS formatting and you'll have all the flexibility you need.
You have 512 byte emulated sectors. As a MBR Disk you can have four 500 GB partitions, two 1 TB partitions or one 2 TB partition. The other 4 TB of your disk is unusable. Go with GPT. It will work fine with your MBR computer system.
I cloned my ssd to the 6TB drive but it took 18 hours?? It was using usb 2 to connect the 6TB and i cloned by booting from a USB. Or should i clone from within windows?
David, can you post a screenshot of Disk Management which shows both the SSD and the 6 TB external HD? I'm interested in the partition layout and data size. Make sure you include the partition information at the top ( I need to see the amount of Free Space and Capacity) as well as the rectangles. Which software was used for the clone? What operating system is on the SSD?
