If my files are not larger than 4GBs and I don't care about space 2 discs take v one, what are other advantages of 8.5GBs discs over 4.7GBs? Thx
1050541
There are none. The only reason I use the 8.5GBs disc is because I do video files that often exceed 4GBs in size. It allows me to retain a higher quality video without having to split the video between two disc. If space is not a problem then having two instead of one is OK. Most cases, however, only safely store one disc per unit.
1050542
I'm with Eric. Two standard discs are cheaper than one DL disc, and more reliable. The only reason to use a DL disc is if you have a single chunk of data bigger than 4.7GB that has to go on one disc. In any event, please don't buy this brand -- they're unreliable, in my painful experience.
1050543
Well if you need two regular DVD's, now all you will need is one. Be careful, some older systems will not read these dual layer DVDs also. I like em because I can put a lot of movies these to send to my Brother. 15 instead of 6.
932553
Just a note..from personal experience. Using a smaller,high performance drive for your System or Boot drive gives you 2 advantages. High performance, lower capacity drives are generally less expensive. 2. In the event of drive failure you don't lose everything. In the event you have to reload your OS it will be on a dedicated,high performance drive and much easier to format and reinstall. SSD is an excellent option here... extremely fast boot time, excellent performance.
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I see this question a number of times here. There is a misunderstanding about disks 3TB or larger will only show 2.19TB. ONLY IF you are trying to make it a bootable device. If you are going to use it as a backup disks and if you just want to dump files there, it is not a problem. I would say it is Amazon's problem in that they were not clear. This is unfortunate, but I wonder if anyone chose a lower capacity disk due to the comment.
2085568
I have installed both 2.5 & 3.5 inch FF drives without any problems. That actual disk partition size is dependent of the OS. The largest drive I nave installed is 2TB and that has been working fine. I have no experience with larger disk drives.
1532781
I didn't really notice much of a difference in speed between my factory 128 Gb drive and the 480 Gb drive...and I actually didn't care about that very much---just needed the extra space!
1802639
Using a 2nd physical drive gives you better options for performance and for recovery. For example, you could have OS and applications on one drive, and data on the other. This improves performance because you're splitting the workload across the multiple drives. This is not the same as using two or more partitions in the same physical drive; that's just for organization, or to overcome limitations of some older operating systems that couldn't handle larger drives. For recovery, you can use one physical drive to backup the other. If you lose one of the drives, you still have your backup. Doesn't work that way with two partitions on the same physical drive. If you lose the drive, you lose both partitions, so there's no real recovery option there.
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I have one of the first builds off the line which is the 4gB model. As I want to use it as a portable recording machine I needed more space, so I picked up an 8 gB SDHC card fo $40 Can/US. I originally used a 2 gB thumb drive, but that fills up when recording hours of audio at 44 khz/16 bit. Also, I like the card as its like a mini-hardrive - it doesn't stick out of the side like a thumb drive.Not sure how much the 8gB model is compared to the 4Gb.. but with expandable memory so cheap..
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I would expect you have more room to cache so more applications will run raster. But 32GB will run a lot of applications plus the OS. Not sure you are getting anything out of it. People rarely run that much at one time. On the other hand, its only $45 - which is not that much more. You could partition it in half and make better use of the 45GB that you are not using for caching. I would play around with it and see if 45GB gives you any decreased performance. If it doesn't, use the other 45GB for something else. Cheers!
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Another reason to stick with a single larger flash than two smaller is that you will get more storage from the single large vs the two smaller. The reason is that due to formating, you lose drive space. You lose more drive space formating two 1G devices than a single 2G device. Just my opinion.
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Comes with 2x2 TB drives. So, default RAID 1 would give you approximately 2 TB of usable space. This allows for one of the drives to fully fail and you lose nothing. Just have to replace the bad drive to retain redundancy.
673878
For the most part if you're running 1920x1080 or lower resolution 1 gig will give you plenty of performance. 2 gig benefits become more pronounced at higher resolutions.
609320
FAT32 can create files 4GB or smaller. NTFS became standard with Windows 2000 and is used by XP and I'm sure Vista will use it. So unless you don't need to store files that are 4gb or more in size you probably dont need to worry about it. Personally I do a lot with video creation and saving uncompressed videos can get huge with only minutes of footage, so its useful for me.
1204211
The 8 GB rating is the ideal situation. You will not get that. The actual storage size will be somewhat smaller (ex. 7.4GB). Whatever size it says it has will be the largest file size it will hold.
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There is a difference between how drive manufacturers specify 32GB and how Windows specifies GB. Every storage device will specify more GB and Windows will always say less due to these differences. Not going to detail them out, as the math makes my head hurt. :P
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None really, I've had both and never found any real pros or cons, to each his on I guess. The download can be re-issued without cost in the event of loss of data (don't let anyone tell you otherwise) so the only real benefit of the CD is an actual hard copy. But saying that the program itself is tiny so, a disk copy has always been overkill to me. I keep a mobile version on my USB at all times, so a hard copy gives me nothing.
127146
Same here: 750GB x 2. They're also not RAID 0, so you don't have one drive with 1.5TB, but rather a 750GB C: drive and a 750GB D: drive.
613485
actually you can burn faster if your DVD writer supports it. I can burn at 6x on my Pioneer drive.