Initializing an SSD

[danielporsh911]

Hey guys, I got a brand new SSD from a friend and I'm not sure what to initialize it as do I initialize it as MBR or GPT, I am using this SSD for pure storage of video games. According to my memory, I should initialize it as GPT but I'm just here to ask and double check.

[Electronics Wizardy]

gpt. GPT is always better, more max partition, more copies of the table. No reason not to.

[danielporsh911]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

gpt. GPT is always better, more max partition, more copies of the table. No reason not to.

Okay, thanks. I honestly hope you're not trolling me and the post count are making me believe you.

[PCGeek]

If it's your boot drive it doesn't matter.  If you want to boot from GPT then you need to enable UEFI.  I generally use MBR unless it's a really large drive >2TB and then I would use GPT.  Reason for that is that I have better portability with older systems although most modern OSes have tools to read GPT.

[Simon771]

Well GPT is newer and should be better.

For some reason I'm still using MBR lol

[vorticalbox]

24 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Well GPT is newer and should be better.

For some reason I'm still using MBR lol

if it isn't broke, don't fix it.