Installing new hdd

[LouieBibo]

Im stalling new hdd, my questions are
1. MBR or GPT?
2. The disk is labelled 0 (disk 0) should i worry about that since i use my ssd as boot drive (UEFI)

Thanks

[LouieBibo]

Anyone? Mbr or gpt?

[DragonClaVV]

Gpt

[Myk_SilentShado]

How big is the HDD? MBR for 2TB and less, GPT for 3TB +

[DragonClaVV]

You can use GPT without any problems on every disk size. GPT is newer and better implented in new OS like W8 which the OP have.

[LouieBibo]

Thanks for the info. Im planning to raid on future upgrade

[LouieBibo]

1tb wd black and 2tb wd red

[Myk_SilentShado]

Basically as far as I know, GPT and MBR do exactly the same thing, the only difference is; MBR way back in the 70's was created to address a maximum of 2TB of HDD space...they never imagined there would be HDD's reaching and exceeding that capacity...so GPT was created, to address greater than 2TB of Disk space.

[DragonClaVV]

I dont remember all differences and had to google for them now to list them here. I think you can do it yourself.

But there was sometihng like GPT has some additional protection against corrupted boot sectors.

greetings

[Raghar]

You can't boot from GPT on W7 if your system doesn't have EFI/UEFI.