Is there any reason to use an MBR versus GUID partition on a WD20EARS 2 TB advanced format drive? The drive will most likely be connected to a Windows 7 x64 machine and a Windows Home Server v1 box ...

The format used to define the hard disk partitions in computers with UEFI startup firmware. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 ...

A GPT disk necessarily has an MBR as well, and while the GPT spec says that the MBR should indicate that the disk has one big partition of a type that a non-GPT-aware OS won't recognize ("nothing to ...