tim_m
i'm so nice
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Been keeping an eye on this thread for a while and finally picked up 2 today at my local BB. Now have 4x my previous storage. Thanks for the notice!
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I'm so freaking tempted, but the NAS still has 2.7TB free and is in need of a good cleanup...
LMAO!!! I store my dual layer blu-ray moviess which are in upwards of 45GB each! I have a total of 25TB of HDDs with blu-ray movies on them. What were you saying about there's no way anyone can actually use all the data these can hold again?!The real problem with these 8TB drives, especially if you buy a bunch of them, is trying to fill them up with stuff you actually want to keep. Just one single 8TB drives holds more than 3000 1080p h.264 movies. There is no way anyone can actually use all of the data these can hold. Even if you stream videos/tv shows/music to every TV in the house, and say you have 5 TV's, it will take more than a lifetime for people to watch all of the content they can hold on a few of these 8TB drives...
Such a limited way of thinking about movies! It's all immersion, my friend. Surround sound and beautiful visuals just add to the overall immersion of the film and I can attest that it enriches my experience of any film I watch whether it has great plots/storylines or not!We get used to having everything available; Netflix, amazon prime, youtube, daily motion, torrents, etc.. Then when we go back to watch it, it's gone; copyright holder took it down. Which is why I grab anything I MIGHT want to watch down the line sometime, and store it. And that takes lots of cheap space. LOTS.
Higher and higher definition means mostly crap. A great show is still great on a 9" black and white TV, and you'll still enjoy watching it, hence all the people watching videos on their phones. OTOH, a crappy movie with tons of stuff blowing up in 4K is still a crappy movie that you keep getting off the couch to do something other than watch that dreck. Every year during the superbowl, one of my idiot friends sits and points out how marvelous it is that we can see the blades of grass on the field 'IN HD'; he's not paying attention to the game, he's examining the friggin' grass. Same with the surround sound nutcases. If you're watching a movie and can't enjoy it because the sound isn't quite right for you, then the movie sucks anyway. Great writing makes you forget you're watching a movie screen; it sucks you in and you actually think the actors are in front of you.
Crappy plots makes you want to count pixels instead of paying attention to the story, and no matter how great the resolution, it's still going to suck.
Are u guys formatting these drives after taking them out of enclosure or just putting them in NAS and letting the NAS do it's stuff?
Thanks
Any thoughts on best way to test drive before cracking these things open?
Anyone know what some 3tb Toshiba drives would be worth?
only get the 3TB the 6TB are total shit....i got burned hard being an early buyer of the 6TB before we found out they were trash :/$75 shipped maybe less.
only get the 3TB the 6TB are total shit....i got burned hard being an early buyer of the 6TB before we found out they were trash :/
Also only retail. The packaging on OEM are trash and they drop like flies
on the bottom of the box,Sorry catching onto this thread late, any fast way to check from the box to see if it is 128MB or 256MB cache? I think I saw it was mentioned Made in Taiwan vs. Made in China? Once shucked it is easy to tell but looking to see if I can differentiated from the box markings. Any help would be appreciated!!
I totally agree. I won't watch a new movie unless it's in quality HD and surround sound. All these people leaking crap cam verions etc, total waste of an experience.Such a limited way of thinking about movies! It's all immersion, my friend. Surround sound and beautiful visuals just add to the overall immersion of the film and I can attest that it enriches my experience of any film I watch whether it has great plots/storylines or not!
This is confirmed 1000% that the drives retain their warranty? If so, how long of a warranty do you get? The normal warranty you would get for that drive? Im on the fence about purchasing two or three... but have no desire to purchase a drive with no warranty.