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It is noisy compared to the 5 TB, just checking the properties of folders and it will cause buffering, and this is how they are, its not defective, I even returned one went to another store and its the same thing, what could they have done physically to these hard drives to cause bufffeeing? I also went and exchanged it and got another one from another store and its the same freaking thing.
It is noisy compared to the 5 TB, just checking the properties of folders and it will cause buffering, and this is how they are, its not defective, I even returned one went to another store and its the same thing, what could they have done physically to these hard drives to cause bufffeeing? I also went and exchanged it and got another one from another store and its the same freaking thing.
There are acceptable noise and there isn't. The bigger the drive, the more likely it will be noisy. Some manufacturer do a better job with noise isolation than others. Loud drive doesn't always mean it is bad. If that was the case, all my old ultra scsi drive on the servers would have died years ago.
IMHO, getting large TB drives to store massive amount of data is just risky. The content must not be very important. If you want quieter driver, get something that is more enterprise level vs the consumer ones.
Seagate and Western Digital are the market leaders, have been for a long time and with good reason.
I mostly agree with SJ. I would hope this 8TG drive isn't the only place you keep stuff. I assume you are mirroring the 5?
What are you storing on this massive drive? And what do you mean by "it will cause buffering"?
There are acceptable noise and there isn't. The bigger the drive, the more likely it will be noisy. Some manufacturer do a better job with noise isolation than others. Loud drive doesn't always mean it is bad. If that was the case, all my old ultra scsi drive on the servers would have died years ago.
IMHO, getting large TB drives to store massive amount of data is just risky. The content must not be very important. If you want quieter driver, get something that is more enterprise level vs the consumer ones.
it's 7.27tb in total, why is it risky storing it in a drive? I have a backup drive for it, 2what is the most I should put in this 7.27TB drive, I heard if I fill it all up that it can cause it to slow down and other problems but I only plan to use half of it.
it's 7.27tb in total, why is it risky storing it in a drive? I have a backup drive for it, 2what is the most I should put in this 7.27TB drive, I heard if I fill it all up that it can cause it to slow down and other problems but I only plan to use half of it.
Drive fails. The bigger the drive, the more you have to lose. Again, it all depends on what you are storing in the drive. If you have not consider redundancy, the data can't be that important.
You're backing it up, that's all that matter.
You can fill it. Where ever you "hear things"... stop listening to those voices.
You shouldn't fill the "C DRIVE" on your computer. That rule does not apply to externals.
it's 7.27tb in total, why is it risky storing it in a drive? I have a backup drive for it, 2what is the most I should put in this 7.27TB drive, I heard if I fill it all up that it can cause it to slow down and other problems but I only plan to use half of it.
What "other problems"? FUD factor ??
A HD stores data writing from the center spinning to the outside, so yes the more data stored then the drive has to spin more to read the said data. However, you are not going to notice if it takes an extra 10ms to read data than usual-this is very minor in terms of it "slowing down"
The 8TB are SMR (shingle magnetic recording) drives which are best for archival purposes where you don't read and write all the time. There are enterprise helium-filled high capacity drives but are a lot more $.
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