Is it recommended to partition an external drive used as storage?
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I'm going to buy a 1TB external hard drive to use it as storage (not backup) and I'm not quite sure if any partitioning at all would be good in this case (i.e. System/Data scheme does not apply). So... what do you usually do? Do you create partitions in external hard drives or leave them with just …
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With a drive that big, and planning to use NTFS, I'd highly recommend partitioning -- unless I knew I'd only be using the drive for storing large files -- DVD-5 ISOs, DVD video files, multitrack audio, etc. If you're planning to store small files, y…
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