You can Format and Convert disks at will. Just saying 
PS. Please don’t say no before you have tried it. Of corse we are talking more advanced IT management here. Maybe not suited in a Cubase forum.
So why don’t you discuss these matters in one of the Technet forums etc?
For DAW uses, most things discussed in this thread has no or less importance (nothing for an average Cubase user to worry about). A lot of RAM is great though 