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expired Posted by silentalarm • Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 5:15 AM
14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
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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
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.
I'm not building a NAS or anything, but would be nice to have the storage space.
I'm not building a NAS or anything, but would be nice to have the storage space.
BTW, the pin 3 "problem" is simple to fix. No need to fiddle with Kapton tape or scotch tape or molex adapter. Just use a sharp knife or razor blade to lift up the pin and snap it off. Have seen dozens and dozens of posts and youtube videos on how to use tape or molex adapter, but only ONE that showed to snap off the pin.
My 14TB is EDFZ, which is "enterprise", so I assumed it has the pin 3 problem. But the pins are rounded, like the previous post where he said that the ones with rounded pin doesn't have the pin 3 issue.
But my 12TB is a EMFZ, and it did have the pin 3 issue. Don't know if its pins are rounded or square. I snapped off its pin as mentioned above..
BTW, the pin 3 "problem" is simple to fix. No need to fiddle with Kapton tape or scotch tape or molex adapter. Just use a sharp knife or razor blade to lift up the pin and snap it off. Have seen dozens and dozens of posts and youtube videos on how to use tape or molex adapter, but only ONE that showed to snap off the pin.
My 14TB is EDFZ, which is "enterprise", so I assumed it has the pin 3 problem. But the pins are rounded, like the previous post where he said that the ones with rounded pin doesn't have the pin 3 issue.
But my 12TB is a EMFZ, and it did have the pin 3 issue. Don't know if its pins are rounded or square. I snapped off its pin as mentioned above..
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So I'm not sure what tests WD's tool does but if WD's own tool says there are too many bad sectors it's not a good sign. Anyone has done the Extended Test to provide more data points?
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