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Master Boot Record (MBR) & Globally Unique Identifier Partition (GPT) based partion disks

As a IT Professional you should familiar with these MBR and GPT based  partition disks. 
If you need a install a hard disk on a PC that running windows 7 you can chose two partitioning systems.
Partition schemes are
  • Master Boot Record (MBR) based partition scheme
  • Globally Unique Identifier Partition (GPT) based partition scheme

Master Boot Record (MBR) based partition scheme
In the Master Boot Record you can find the partition table for the disk and master boot code. during the computer start-up process BIOS read MBR and find the which partition is the marked as active in the disk. In the active partition contains operating system.
Limitations of the MBR.
Only four partitions for each disk.
Maximum partition size is 2TB
Can not create a redundancy options.

Globally Unique Identifier Partition (GPT) based partition scheme
GPT based partition avoided limitations of the MBR partitions scheme GPT supports.
128 partitions
Ability to create partition size larger than 2TB
Ability to create redundancy options.


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