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It's alive, but not that useful anymore. Robocopy has been around for quite some time, can retry on errors, and has support for multi-threaded transfers which can drastically speed up copy operations...
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It's really base 2 vs base 10 counting. Once you format the drive you'll see the logical volume (space the OS sees). My rule of thumb is that you lose anywhere from 7-9% in the formatting/translation...
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Calling someone a "shucker" can go wrong in so many ways.. :lol:
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Now that's funny...
Thanks, however I didn't actually need to be told what "xcopy" meant; it's been my user name for over 20 years on SD. :nod:
BTW - xcopy is alive as well. You can even use it...
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Thanks…
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Ordered the 16tb on the 16th and mines hasn't shipped yet, anyone else still waiting for theirs to be shipped too?
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It's normal, it's due to how they're measured https://www.transcend-info.com/Support/FAQ-503
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I got my today. But it says 14.5TB is missing 1.5 TB what happen. I’m new to this hard drives…
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Didn't you need to recycle an old flash drive or hard drive to get a coupon for that? I think I remember the deal. A 14TB came out to 168.99 plus tax.
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Cool story, do you have a time machine?
Also, unlikely since I bought the same drive and it was right around $200 so there's probably more to the story.
But even if so - people post this same...
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2 or 3 years ago I got 14TB from Best Buy for like $180 new...
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Not everyone is comfortable buying used from goharddrive or serverpartdeals. It doesn't bother me, but for those who feel squeamish on those deals but can't necessarily afford new.... this is a...
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Where is the slick deal at?
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Not necessarily. I keep mine and repurpose them for smaller drives. There are only 3 drive mfrs now and I haven't had a problem with it taking other drives, but I did snip pins on 2 controller boards...
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If you're worried about buying a refurbished hard drive, Amazon is selling a 16 TB Seagate external drive, new, for $250
Seagate Expansion Desktop, 16TB, External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 (STKP16000402)...
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They sell them.
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Considering that when I bought my last 12tb and 14tb drives from Western digital they were right around $200.00 to $239.00 from Bestbuy deal of the day during holidays I would not chance my files to...
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XCOPY was a command in DOS that was used to copy directories from one location to another. See the Wikipedia article
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For you shuckers out there, what do you do with all the enclosures? Do you keep them, trash/recycle them?
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he probably means the original DOS OS.
Just a few years ago people used to talk about building a 20TB or 50TB file server that would need 20 disks. Now you can do it with 1/2 external drives...
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