When I hook this up it shows I have 594GB available out of 594GB. Does this drive really keep 46GB in reserve? That seems like a lot.
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My HDD IS 750GB and shows 698GB is available for use. It keeps 2 GB for partion table and addressing storing data. I don't thing that amount of space is normal to keep reserved for system usage. Try to talk to seller or do low level formating maybe that works for you. I am not sure what is wrong with your HDD.
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Yes, though it may not always be exactly that much kept in reserve, it keeps a large chunk back even if you've reformatted the drive.
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I cannot give you an exact answer..but I think that it does.....I used it for backup for my entire DESKTOP computer...and there is A LOT of info...Maybe you can call Sea gate and ask them..I am sure there is a customer service line for questions/..Hope this helps!!!
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I don't think I use it any more. It has been awhile, but I recall having problems with it...but I can't be sure.Truth is you will see no real ("butt dyno in car-nut speak<G>) difference between the different specs in real world experience, so it is not worth pursuing IMHO.If on a system drive, go with an SSd -- even w/Sata2 the difference will wow you. 120GB is plenty big enough unless you had hundreds of application, then 240. $150 or less. Keep data off the boot drive.
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I'm in the process of doing this exact upgrade, except up to 480 GB. Using Macrium Reflect Free, I was able to clone the drive, swap it into the Series 9, and the computer is acting perfectly. It worked. The problem is that even though it's a 480 GB drive, windows just shows it as the same size as old one, with 300GB of "unallocated" space that I can't figure out how to make accessible. If you figure it out, please let me know how you did it! My thread is one of the other Q & A threads on this same product.
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You should ALWAYS have redundancy, especially with these kinds of drives. Yeah, they are cheap, but your data isn't. Buy two and use one as a backup. I learned the hard way myself.
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I currently have a 3TB drive in it and it's working fine. I cannot comment on 4TB.
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I put in an SDD, then reformatted the drive that came preinstalled into a single partition (leaving the hidden partitions alone in case I need to restore later). After that, the drive shows up as 1.8TB, and it performs like a 5400RPM drive. That being said, I believe that in it's original configuration, it performed as an hybrid drive with 8GB of SSD, which greatly improved it's performance over a regular 5400RPM drive. Hope that helps some.
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Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
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Actually, disregard my previous response. I had this drive, but it was a 2TB model, not 3TB. There's a limit of 2.19TB for older Windows version (including Win 7) unless you have hardware that supports GPT partitioning, which I honestly don't know much about at this time. I'd recommend going with a 2TB version to be on the safe side.
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The largest drive I've installed is 500GB, but I'm using 4 of them in two different systems (2 each), and am very pleased with them. I use Acronis True Image backup to multiple partitions on my backup drives, which are easily swapped out with the power off.
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I don't think there's a reliable answer because I think WD puts in whatever drive is available. I haven't heard WD give any answer to this question. It's really slow, so it may be a 5400 drive.
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The drive must be formatted with the FAT file system and then it works. This mean nothing over 32GB.
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All four slots are used up I have the same config of 2x2g + 2x4g for a total of 12g. But it is very powerful as is no complaints. For better performance install a msata drive as your primary so drive.
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Just as KrellSteel said, works fine once you use Disk Manager on it. I have a 4TB drive, a WD40EURX, and gave it a GUID partition with NTFS, and drive letter for convenience, and it's copying files like a champ as I type. Copying 200GB of data (5% of it's capacity) takes about 40 minutes.
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This is my first experience with an external drive. I've had no problem with this item. I do suggest you get a larger capacity drive as the prices have been falling lately on the external drives.
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I thought description said 160 gig, but it shows 298 gig capacity when I open up system. I'm assuming it has a 300 gig drive. Excellent system so far..
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You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.
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Yeah, I fell for it, too. I thought I was getting 2x 4TB drives -- and it is TB, btw...not gb (which is 1000x less). I found it's only 2x 2TB drives. I believe you can change the Raid to 0, though...which will stripe data across both of them and you'll get nearly 4TB of storage. The only downside to this is if one fails, you lose the data on both. Make it more fun then...and add a 2nd one to the network and have them back each other up =)