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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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EDIT: Added one more picture. CrystalDiskInfo is 100% correct
I wasn't going to open mine but now I have to in order to make sure they are real.
EDIT: Added one more picture. CrystalDiskInfo is 100% correct
EDIT: Added one more picture. CrystalDiskInfo is 100% correct
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Hoping someone in this thread might be able to help me out with a technical question:
I currently have four 8TB external drives (WD's) that are about 80% full (I run a plex server). Currently I've been sweating because I don't have any type of RAID backup going on (If a drive dies, it's 8TB of lost data).
I just purchased four of these bad boys (RIP my wallet). So, what I'd like to achieve is backing up all of my current drives, with the hopes of having some extra left over for future expansion. I'm currently running my Plex server off the externals plugged in through a USB hub. I looked into a NAS bay drive but most only fit 4 drives which would be two drives and 2 for backup... which is nowhere near the amount of bays I need for what will now be.... 8 hard drives I'll have. (8 Bay NAS's cost more than my computer).
****So, now that I've given you the setup, a few questions:
1) Will it be fine to just have 8 external drives plugged into my PC via a hub? Is there a better way to do this? Shuck them and put them all in some type of enclosure? Not going to lie that many drives in external enclosures is going to take up a lot of physical space, lol
2) Anyone know of the best way to back up my current data and cross transfer it? I'll have four 8TB drives and four 14TB drives. Is there some "smart" software that will evenly spread my data across the 8tb drives or something?
3) Really, any other tips or tricks for handling the type of setup I have would be awesome. Also I realize I should probably seek out some type of tech forum for this instead of SD, but I just bought these (damn you SD!) and was here so figured people in this thread may be knowledgeable.
I appreciate any and all responses. Thank you so much!
The individual drives are exposed to the OS just as if you'd plugged them in directly (like through a USB hub or if you shucked them and used internal or external SATA connections). This is often referred to as "Just a bunch of disks" (JBOD) as opposed to SAN/NAS implementations. RAID-based NAS's were primarily for high-availability (preventing downtime). Most users would get far more efficient use of space by just copying or backing up data, especially if they're just dealing with media files (as opposed to mission-critical VMs or databases). Personally, I don't see the benefits of NAS devices for the vast majority of users out there, especially considering their extremely high cost (like you mentioned, often higher than mid-range full PC's).
If you want to avoid having many different drive letters to deal with, options include Windows Storage Spaces (Win 10 Pro or Workstation) or NTFS mount points (both features are pretty well documented if you search for them).
I hope this helps!
Checked my event viewer today and holy shit one of my drives has bad blocks so I just... placed another order and it let me. 28TB here we go...
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1 each with three different cards and email addresses, same physical address and name.
Ordered all for store pickup at 4 stores nearby that had stock, and picked them all up within a day's time.
I've hooked up 3 of the 4, and been testing them. All 3 tested were the EDFZ drives. With word that some folks were getting swaps, I checked them all for any hints the packaging or the external case had been tampered with.
But I think they might have made some changes. F meant 10,000 rpm in the chart, but in EDFZ, its 5400rpm with 512MB Cache.
Here is another helpful thread on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...b_sh
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1 via Paypal
1 each with three different cards and email addresses, same physical address and name.
Ordered all for store pickup at 4 stores nearby that had stock, and picked them all up within a day's time.
I've hooked up 3 of the 4, and been testing them. All 3 tested were the EDFZ drives. With word that some folks were getting swaps, I checked them all for any hints the packaging or the external case had been tampered with.
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