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Are there any issues using these with a NAS? Will any NAS be able to access all 3TB or does the NAS need to meet certain requirements? And will any OS then be able to see everything on the NAS even...
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"LUL" no one said anything about a 3TB OS drive. you totally misunderstand. with a 32-bit OS, if you plug the drive into the MB SATA it will only show up as a 2.2TB HDD. "LUL"
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so what you got 15TB worth of ? bluray rips?
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i want to say with a NAS you should be okay, as it is not controlled by a 32-bit OS. though check with the NAS mfr just to be sure.
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well you want to put the DVR that is recording the cameras in a place where a robber wont find it. if you have it sitting out front with your audio/video equipment, they just might take it too. ...
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usually, but not all of the time, either a HDD is going to fail almost immediately or it will last for years. now there are the exceptions and this is why you use the 3-2-1 backup plan.
keep in...
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who trusts amazon reviews for computer components?? especially a small number of them. the reviews are one of the reasons amazon is lowering the price, getting more people to buy.
I believe this...
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Good to know. I always check for reviews before I buy anyway. But this drive only have those amazon review to run on when I'm googling. New egg have review on a different model.
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That is correct. I bought a 10 pack of BD-R 25 GB for $8 ($0.032/GB same as DVD) from meritline a couple of months ago, not a single coaster. They are rated for up to 50 year lifespan and are scratch...
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Scheduled For Early Delivery On:
Monday, 07/18/2011, by 10:30 A.M.(by end of day for residential deliveries)
Originally Scheduled For Delivery On:
Tuesday, 07/19/2011, by 3:00 P.M.(by end of day...
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yup, over the last 5 or so years i have learned to keep OS files separate from data files. a small fast drive is the way to go for the OS drive. makes things so much more easy to reinstall the OS. ...
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It's all about the partition(s). MBR has a 2.19TB limit. You have to partition with GPT to overcome that.
Tip: Don't partition these or any new drive with XP 32 or 64, it won't work. There is a...
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What would you recommend as a storage system for backups and media for streaming? Currently I am using a server with SBS08 (I got it from work and wanted to learn a server OS). After learning it the...
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i was way off on those os and program sizes. took a look and the windows directory itself is around 5GB (then you have a few other directories) and my program directory is less then 4GB.
so do...
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14 gbs :D
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All the Hitachi drives are falling in price and the Samsung can't fall below $69.99?
good price!
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Wow, 3TB has reached the per TB price of 2TB already! Nice!
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USB 2.0. Thanks but no thanks!:cool:
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correct me if i'm wrong but you need a mobo with an efi bios to be able to boot into the 3tb's. otherwise they should show up fine in their entirety as non-bootable drive in vista64+
intel has...
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That's good if you need external storage with a 1 year warranty....
If you are building a storage array, you will need better.
This Hitachi is faster, cooler, 3 year warranty and works with...
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To use this hard drive all you have to do is check that you have a hard drive bay in your computer case and 1 SATA data port available on your motherboard and 1 SATA power connection from your power...
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Normally, I would let things slide, had not you spewed a load of nonsense in addition to personal attacks. While you accused me multiple times for "thinking", you, my friend, could have prefaced...
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the 2 bad reviews on amazon kind of scares me about the reliability of this hard drive O_o
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If u use this as a secondary HD, do u need an OS for it or can u use the 1st HD OS? How hard is it to install yourself?
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I just bought a 128gb SSD and have windows 7 pro and just about all my programs installed and have about 70 gigs left. I think the lowest you'd want to go is 80. I personally like the extra space so...
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im still not clear on not defragging. files get fragmented from all the deleting and writing just like on a hdd, so what is dont to clean up all the fragmented files?
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In for one. Thumbs up and repped!!!
Took this over the Newegg external version as the Amazon deal comes with 3yr vs. 1yr warranty. Also, I can decide to go internal or put it in my own external...
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In for 4
+ syno 411
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you go girl!
yes
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Its back in stock at the same price.
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In for 4. Good deal op!
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dead, but external option still available for $119.99 on NewEgg
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Server 2008 and W7x64 would only recognize 600+ GB of this drive. Make sure your drive space is correct in BIOS and then download Intel's latest RST, assuming your board is Intel.
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Any requirements in terms of hardware (motherboard/bios) in order to boot off of one of these 3TB drives? I know it sounds silly to use this as an OS drive, but its for my windows home server box...
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in my experience windows wont boot from usb external drives, but linux will run from an external with no issue.
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Sorry just to be clear i will not be using it as a USB external. I'm talking about as the internal primary SATA drive...
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HDDs have physical platters and when data is read off of them sequentially you get a speed advantage. If the files are fragmented the data can not be read sequentially and the data takes longer to...
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i did a search for SSD and there was a 240MB deal a few days back for $300.
looking at the prices of the other size SSDs it looks like they are $1.5 x the size. I.E 60GB for around $90
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I prefer WD over Hitachi. Here is another option:
Western Digital® Elements® 3TB External Hard Drive @ STAPLES
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Thanks for drive rating. I bought this for USB 3.0 enclosure cut was worried about rpm...
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