Blazestorm
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Most of the BestBuy sales have been pretty short, I setup Slickdeals alerts for it, waiting for 8TB @ $130
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I just got an email from Bestbuy with early access for the president's day sale and the 10TB with 32GB Flash drive are at $169.99. I'm currently chatting with an agent to get my price adjustment from the ones I bought 2 weeks ago.
I guess I'll have to wait for the sale to go active. I didn't see early access in my e-mail...oh well.
Its posted on Slick Deals as well. I just had to sign in to my account to see the pricing.
Now I got it. Thanks. Picked one up. $180 with tax.
It's still $169 as of now. Interesting that many stores around are out of stock. Maybe BB just unloading them. It's just too low.
After formatting that sounds about right 9.0949TB ~ 9313 gigsIs a 10TB supposed to show up as 9.09tb in windows?
Is a 10TB supposed to show up as 9.09tb in windows?
After formatting that sounds about right 9.0949TB ~ 9313 gigs
Yep, they are still advertising in multiples of 1000 instead of 1024.
So, 10TB in marketing terms = 10 * 10^12 bytes.
1 TB by any legit OS will be calculated as 1024^4 bytes.
So divide 10 * 10^12 by 1024^4 and you get 9.094957.... TB.
So, yes, Windows is correct.
It's not from formatting, and it's not marketing. It's SI units, which is a IEEE/IEC standard manufactures follow. Decimal vs Binary, SI units are base 10, while Windows uses Binary which is base 2.
IEC Prefixes.
So, what file system will give us 10TB out of that 10TB device? And is it something we can actually use, say, on a common NAS? Or is the 10TB just like a quarter pound hamburger, but only if you eat it raw will you ever get a quarter pound of meat out of it?
So, what file system will give us 10TB out of that 10TB device? And is it something we can actually use, say, on a common NAS? Or is the 10TB just like a quarter pound hamburger, but only if you eat it raw will you ever get a quarter pound of meat out of it?
You will always lose some in the formatting. Just like your quarter-pounder.lol
&You will always lose some in the formatting. Just like your quarter-pounder.lol
Okay, okay, nothing is lost. I just wish MdDonalds would stop formatting my quarter pounders in base sixteen, because I KNOW I'm losing something there.Read the link I posted. You are not losing or gaining space, the size on disk does not change. In SI units it's base 10, so 1000 bytes to a KiB, 1024 bytes to a kB. What you are doing is looking at them as the same, which they are not, it's like seeing a ruler and wondering why one person says it's 12in and someone else claims it's 30cm. There is no actual reason to use base 2 for HDD, for other memory types such as RAM it's addressed by physical binary address, so using base 2 is a natural fit. Some Linux uses base 10 for HDD and network and base 2 for RAM etc, iOS also does this, Windows however uses Base 2, so 1024 sizes for the file system. Nothing is lost.
Mine get about 220 MB/s sequential read and write. With software RAID-0 (Windows) I get nearly double that. If you use them in the USB 3.0 enclosure your random writes and reads will suffer a bit.Can anyone comment on the performance of these drives? Looking for a cheap massive options to RAID and video edit off of.
Mine get about 220 MB/s sequential read and write. With software RAID-0 (Windows) I get nearly double that. If you use them in the USB 3.0 enclosure your random writes and reads will suffer a bit.
Would these be ok for Plex. Would be a lot of reading. Not much writing.
It's also deal of the day on Amazon today $159.99
As long as you're careful shucking them, no reason to not just keep the external enclosures in a box for warranty purposes (this is what I did with the 8x in my server.) If I have a failure, it will be easy enough to put it back into the enclosure, I didn't do any damage at all to any of my enclosures.They would be great for Plex. I would keep them as externals until at least the warranty expires.
Must resist. Must resist...
This, I shucked all 12 of mine with no issue and have the enclosures in a box in my garage.As long as you're careful shucking them, no reason to not just keep the external enclosures in a box for warranty purposes (this is what I did with the 8x in my server.) If I have a failure, it will be easy enough to put it back into the enclosure, I didn't do any damage at all to any of my enclosures.
So what is inside of 10TB Elements? I know 10TB Easystore are white drives.
I've shucked several of these, haven't gotten a helium filled one yet.So what is inside of 10TB Elements? I know 10TB Easystore are white drives.
I've shucked several of these, haven't gotten a helium filled one yet.
Both amazon and B&H are backordered. People are like locust - a few minutes and everything is gone