Primary versus Data partition

[Zer0]

Hi,

This might sound like the most stupid question, but why did the new SSD partition ended up as "Basic Data Partition"

So I have installed additional SSD 850 PRO for games and it ended up formatted as "Basic Data Partition", can't find the exact info on the internet. Have some HDDs which are formatted to "Primary" which I use for the same purpose, so I am not sure why this SSD ended up as "Basic Data Partition".

Should I format it again as "primary" or leave as "data" for game installations : )

 

[Zer0]

Hi guys, thank you very much for your kind messages and time as well, especially to @Undesirable for such in depth explanation and for being so cool, it is much appreciated and very clear without smallest thing to question further. I guess we could say GPT is "better"?

I did disabled CSM on my MBU which contains legacy mode and that way disabled any kind of MBR compatibility for better booth speeds. I also noticed when I had to erase SSD via Samsung Magician bootable USB, it wasn't booting without enabling CSM or legacy mode.

Will think about possibility of formatting my old HDD's to GPT sometimes in future.

Thank you once again for everything.
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[Zer0]

Hey buddy, of course as we mentioned above, one of the users mentioned that there are some boot speed gains with CSM/MBR disabled.