Buying External Harddisk
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billubakra
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4 tb was like 9k before 30th here. Prices are increased now.
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Zangetsu
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Oh man!! Scary
See this:
The Best Portable Hard Drive
Wait for a 1-2 weeks before buying imported pc parts like hdd,ram,processor,mobo etc.Now that all checkposts are gone,transit time & expenses for shipping from port cities to far away cities has also gone down & should reflect in prices of new stock.
4TB hdd is indeed a risk but as long as you have a good fast UL internet connection & majority of the space is going to be used for such data that can be re-downloaded easily,it is worth it.
The Best Portable Hard Drive
Wait for a 1-2 weeks before buying imported pc parts like hdd,ram,processor,mobo etc.Now that all checkposts are gone,transit time & expenses for shipping from port cities to far away cities has also gone down & should reflect in prices of new stock.
4TB hdd is indeed a risk but as long as you have a good fast UL internet connection & majority of the space is going to be used for such data that can be re-downloaded easily,it is worth it.
Unless you want a 4 TB drive for commercial reason (like stocking up lots of footage before editing them) 4 TB is indeed a bigger risk.
I would say taking care of your drive, like keeping it on places which is not easily accessible (not on computer table), ejecting properly, keeping a tab on SMART data for its health, a 4 TB is STILL freaking huge basket to keep all your eggs at one place.
Better to have 2x2 TB HDDs.
I would say taking care of your drive, like keeping it on places which is not easily accessible (not on computer table), ejecting properly, keeping a tab on SMART data for its health, a 4 TB is STILL freaking huge basket to keep all your eggs at one place.
Better to have 2x2 TB HDDs.
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Zangetsu
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I agree, but a 4TB has better cost per gigabytes as compared to 2x2TB one...what do u say ?
Btw, anybody using 4TB external HDD in TDF ?
No but I have 5TB external seagate portable.
Nerevarine
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Which contains backup of my two 2TB & one 750GB internal hard disks.
Nerevarine
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I have a 250 GB HDD if that countsWhich contains backup of my two 2TB & one 750GB internal hard disks.
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Zangetsu
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Desktop portable one ? which needs separate power ?
I have 500 GB Seagate Slim & 1TB WD Passport.I have a 250 GB HDD if that counts
But still need one more HDD
No,USB one that launched exclusively on Amazon India here in Nov 2016 I think.It is the largest USB portable HDD as of now.
@Nerevarine Well that's good if that's what you need.For me,my needs are a bit large.Currently I have around 10TB in portable external HDDs & around 7TB in internal HDDs.
@Nerevarine Well that's good if that's what you need.For me,my needs are a bit large.Currently I have around 10TB in portable external HDDs & around 7TB in internal HDDs.
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billubakra
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Sorry about an offtopic question, how much free space does a 2tb internal drive have?
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Nerevarine
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931 * 2 = 1862 GB i guess
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Zangetsu
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But that will be costly
billubakra
Conversation Architect
Itni khali jagah kaati kaha hai? Around 150 GB not usable, hadd hi hogi.
In digital world base number system is 2(binary number system) not 10(aka decimal number system). So One Thousand is not 1000 but 1024.However HDD manufacturer advertise the capacity in decimal system so the actual space of HDD is always less than advertised capacity(because at every stage you are dividing by 1024 & not 1000.e.g.100000bits is 100000/1024=97.65kb but advertised value will be 100kb).In case of 1TB hdd the bits are 1000000000000 but divide it by 1024 three times & you will get ~931gb so basically manufacturers are advertising decimal system values but PC will use binary system values.