GPT Paritition Spannning :
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Hi fellow Bursters ! ,
I am inquiring of Correct Formatting of a new 5TB Toshiba and old 1TB Western Digital .
I am currently running under Windows 7 64bit and coming up against 2TB limitation for NTFS.
I am currently formatting under Disk Management Dynamic : GPT SPanning both the 5TB and the 1TB HDDs .
My question is will Xplotter work correctly with this setup ?
- crownstar
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Come one Please , I know others have HDD's out there that are Larger capacity and having reached the 2TB limitation for Large Formatting .
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@crownstar There is no 2 TB limit on NTFS - I have a ton of 8TB formatted drives, but they need to be partitioned as GPT drives, not MBR. Reinitialize the drives GPT and you can go max capacity.
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So I am currently in the Long Process of Formatting them as Dynamic Spanned GPT . Should I cancel this out ?
What do you recommend that I do with them ?
- crownstar
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So they being Unallocated need to be First Formatted as GPT is that correct ?
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@crownstar Partioned/initialized as GPT - GPT is a part ionic layout, NTFS is the formatted file system.
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okay and what about Spanning Dynamic Link 2 seperate Hard Drives into one Large TB Drive ?
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@crownstar Don't do it. The miners are multi threaded and can read multiple individual drives than they can a raid 0/striped volume.
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Okay now they are Seperate NTFS Partitions Now , Now how do I Plot them with Optimization enabled ?
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@crownstar use Xplotter, it optmizes by default
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where is Xplotter and does it enable GPU plotting ?
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@crownstar Xplotter is included in the AIO wallet, no Xplotter is a CPU plotter. The GPU plotter can be found in the software section https://forums.burst-team.us/category/48/plotter
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yet the GPU plotter doesn't plot optimize ?
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@crownstar The GPU plotter can operate in two modes, "direct" (which optimizes) or "buffered" (which does not optimize)

