Windows Tip: Windows Vista and GPT disks
Windows Vista supports two types of disk partitioning: Master Boot Record (MBR) and Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table (GPT). GPT disks offer several advantages over MBR disks including more partitions (128 instead of 4) and larger partition sizes (theoretically up to 18 exabytes or about 18 million terabytes). But before you run out and get a zillion terabyte drive for your Vista workstation so you can store all your YouTube videos, you need to know the following.
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Or better still........Back
Or better still........Back them all up on seperate slightly smaller ones instead??I personally have 6TB of space, I use 2TB built in, and the rest is on several external 750GB hard drives.............