"GPT also provides redundancy, writing the GPT header and partition table both at the beginning and at the end of the disk." -wp which I assume means that if a chunk of you disk becomes unreadable, you have a much better chance of recovering some of the partitions.
and lots more partitions than msdos. sometimes its hndy to have more than 16 partitions on a disk.
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Date: 2011-11-18 11:46 am (UTC)which I assume means that if a chunk of you disk becomes unreadable, you have a much better chance of recovering some of the partitions.
and lots more partitions than msdos. sometimes its hndy to have more than 16 partitions on a disk.