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More => Music, Movies, Politics, and Other Cheap Thrills => Topic started by: Matt on December 11, 2015, 06:21:50 pm
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I bit the bullet and ordered an 8TB internal hard drive:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XS423SC
I'm in the process of loading it up now. I suppose it's good that it means I'll have a backup copy of everything I can put in my safe from the old hard drive.
But the real reason I needed it is because some yahoo bought the Star Wars anthology on blu-ray and ripping all of them (with Media Center!) resulted in a lot of space!
Hopefully the 8TB mark will keep me happy for a while. It's just amazing how the capacities just keep doubling and doubling. I wonder what the limit will be?
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But the real reason I needed it is because some yahoo bought the Star Wars anthology on blu-ray and ripping all of them (with Media Center!) resulted in a lot of space!
I blame Ben.
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that's a good price
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Hopefully the 8TB mark will keep me happy for a while.
;D No way. Once you start ripping BD the space goes very quickly! I've now got a couple of the 8TB in my main pool and as I run out of space I remove the smallest drive and replace with the biggest one available. As you can see in the Pic I've got a 40TB pool with "only" 3.5TB left on my "M:" drive
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I bit the bullet and ordered an 8TB internal hard drive:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XS423SC
I'm in the process of loading it up now. I suppose it's good that it means I'll have a backup copy of everything I can put in my safe from the old hard drive.
But the real reason I needed it is because some yahoo bought the Star Wars anthology on blu-ray and ripping all of them (with Media Center!) resulted in a lot of space!
Hopefully the 8TB mark will keep me happy for a while. It's just amazing how the capacities just keep doubling and doubling. I wonder what the limit will be?
Let us know how the Seagate works out - reliability and noise are of interest to me.
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I'm still filling it up. It's going to take over 24 hours. And this is with SATA connections.
Crazy.
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I'm still filling it up. It's going to take over 24 hours. And this is with SATA connections.
It has taken me a lot longer to fill a 3TB drive. ;D
I note that an 8TB USB drive is available for the same price from Amazon.
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I finally finished filling it up.
I was relieved because even my junction points on the old drive moved over just fine (I have a pile of directories on A:\ which map into my old / new drive).
I can't really comment on the noise because I have such an insulated case. It's pretty quiet, but obviously not SSD quite!
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It's worth keeping in mind these use SMR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording) so they are best for storing content that does not change (eg good for media)
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I can't really comment on the noise
Seagate is known for noisy drives.
my third and forth hard drive, back in the early 80's was a Seagate (65 meg, 5 1\4 inch) drive.
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Seagate is known for noisy drives.
my third and forth hard drive, back in the early 80's was a Seagate (65 meg, 5 1\4 inch) drive.
I don't think noisy drives are much of a problem any more. They're all pretty quiet.
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Some of you may find this report interesting. BackBlaze is a cloud backup provider. They publish the results of their hard drive failures a couple of times per year. This report contains statistics for over 40,000 drives that are in current use in their data center. Pretty cool real world stuff here.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/
Brian.
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Should note that while their stuff is "real world", its not anywhere close to "home usage". Drives react differently to being in a crowded metal cage with 20 other drives running 24/7 (vibrations, etc), than running at home for a bit.