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UEFI + GPT

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Firestrider

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Is UEFI + GPT only required if you want to boot a disk that is larger than 2 TB?

My motherboard supports UEFI, but since I'm not booting a > 2 TB disk is there any advantage of switching to it?

From Tom's hardware GPT offers:
- 18 exabyte maximum capacity
- Up to 128 partitions per disk
- Primary and backup partition tables available for redundancy
- Well-defined and self-identifying partition format
- Each partition has a unique ID to avoid identifier collisions (“GUID” partition table)

What does UEFI offer?
 
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