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Mine says 12.7 to. is that normal for a 14tb drive after formated?
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1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (terabyte = 1000^4)
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1TiB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes (tebibyte = 1024^4) 1TB/1TiB = 0.9095 tebibytes per terabyte 14TB * 0.9095 = 12.73 TiB |
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Windows, however, sticks to the 1024 rule, which means it sees a 250GB hard drive as 232GB, and a 1TB drive as 931GB.This explains why hard drives appear to have a lower capacity than advertised.A 1TB hard drive has the capacity to store 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Divide this by 1024 and you get 976,562,500KB. Divide by 1024 again and you get 953,674.3MB. Finally, divide by 1024 to get gigabytes and you end up with 931.32GB and so similar way you can calculate the process of 1 MB and 1024kb.
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You can also use CrystalDiskInfo to confirm the disk model and capacity.
https://www.google.com/search?q=crysta
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Going to return the 5x unopened 12TB drives i got a few weeks ago. I still might wait until after BF to open these just in case but this is a great deal that is hard to beat. Gotta love that long return window offered for the holidays for waiting on deals.
Before I shuck my drives i like to run a full disk scan on WD Diagnostics tool. It takes a while to scan larger drives but that way if there is any problems with the disk I can get it replaced without any hassle.
Friendly reminder make sure you buy multiple so you can backup your data =D
Also do u guys know the difference between this and WD Mybook? I have the mybook but it's only 8tb. Is this a good upgrade in terms of speed and specs that I don't know of?
I've been using my 8tb for my PS4 btw. I'll be using this 14tb for PS4/ps5
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