okbangas (12/21/2011)
A little piece of missing information: You describe some of the differences between MBR and GPT, but in my opinion you lack the most important one: MBR can only host partitions up to 2TB. Obviously, if you are trying to create a partition bigger than this, you need to have a GPT disk. More importantly though, if you think your partition can possibly be resized to more than 2TB in the future, you should go for GPT to allow for this.
<sigh> please read the article.
I make a recommendation that if your disk will be under 500GB and have 1 partition use MBR otherwise consider GPT. It's not meant to be a comprehensive guide on disk types that is why I include the link to that KB. I do however cover the important aspects regarding partition constraints.
You're just being petty, good day 😉
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