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View allThen there's the question of whether you can for sure get away with returning a shucked disk under warranty. All in all, you're saving money by buying greater risk (risk of data read hiccups, risk of disk failure, risk of having to spend the time and effort to replace a disk, and risk of not being able to get warranty support). You can of course accept the risk to save the cash. It's all about choice. I'm just trying to make sure people understand what they're choosing.
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Answer is shucked drives are safer at every price point. You need not spend more, and you won't get safer by doing so.
Another example:
4x shucked drives (say RAID 6) costs MUCH less than 3 official NAS drives (say RAID 5) for the same amount of storage. But the shucked drives have greater safety (RAID 6).
But if your data isn't that important or you'd rather save a few bucks and don't mind having to replace disks and rebuild your array once in a while, and aren't annoyed if one of your disks goes into recovery mode when it misreads and your NAS is left waiting for it because it didn't get the report a NAS disk would have given it, then by all means, use the cheapest disks you can get and hope for the best.
Microsoft please fix.
http://www.ussscctv.com/hdccalc.html
Computer storage capacities using binary prefixes were defined back in 1988, that article must have been written before that.
It never made any sense to call 1024 Bytes a Kilobyte.
I think everyone agrees that a byte is a byte is a byte, ie 8 bits.
The "tera' prefix represents the fourth power of 1000, and means 10¹² in the International System of Units, and therefore one terabyte is one trillion bytes.
2TB is two trillion bytes or as listed 2000398933504 bytes.
The tebibyte ( and other binary prefixes like kibi, mebi, gibi, pebi etc.) were created to accommodate the 1024 binary multiples.
So if the drive was advertised with a 2 TiB capacity, then it should have a 2x2^40 bytes (or 2199023255552 bytes), but it's advertised as a 2 Terabyte (2 trillion bytes) drive and that is what it shows.
No funny "Mac counting"
Windows is all screwed up if they show TB but really mean TiB.
Windows will display 1 Terabyte in Tebibytes, this means only 0.91 Tebibytes or 930 Gibibytes will be displayed on the drive.
https://blog.livedrive.com/2012/08/why- ... -terabyte/
That was my whole point.
And btw - there is nothing wrong with an SMR drive for the appropriate application,like backing up data.
for those who missed it, don't worry i'm sure something similar will come around on black friday if you can hold out
otherwise, this $270 deal is ok
After reading this I decided to check with Drive DX (on a Mac) and it reports the full 2TB in bytes
1. Drives inside could not be even compared for quality and/or performance.
2. EVERY "My Book" model external drive WILL encrypt data (so this one will too!!). It is, supposedly, a "feature".. Only way around encryption is to shuck the drive. Or buy "WD Elements" external drives [usually the same type drives inside, but no encryption and a few bucks cheaper. And shorter warranty, if it's important at all]
Since shucked drives can be about half the price of official NAS drives, it's actually safer to run shucked drives than official NAS drives on a cost per TB basis (ie at the same prices, it's better to run 4 shucked drives in a RAID-6 than 2 official NAS drives with no fault tolerance. )
Yes, that's just how drive manufacturers (all of them) calculate space. For example a 1TB drive is actually about 930GB. It's more noticeable on larger drives. Brief explanation here: http://www.ussscctv.com/hdccalc.html
I gathered the same info from other posts on reddit. EMFZ quieter and slightly faster than EDAZ. Doesn't mean EDAZ is bad, just different relabelled drives. MyBook seems to always be EDAZ. Elements seems to always be EMFZ. Easystore (BB only) seem to be a random chance at EMFZ or EDAZ.
Indeed. All the WD external drives 8TB and up are well suited for NAS use.