Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I am firmly in camp #1. I don’t use partitions (I use separate drives).

The “something goes wrong” reasoning fails when the drive itself fails, such as the controller. You lose it all.


+1---you can lose partitions/everything, whether or not if the partition is physical or virtual. If you initialize or convert your drive to GPT, you won't be limited to 2TB partitions and you can use the entire 6TB as one big partition. Partitions used to save time when making/restoring drive/file backups but nothing is quicker or more reliable than cloning a drive with an external device, like a StarTech (the computer doesn't even have to be on).


Paj
8^)