I backed up my laptop, which holds 500GB but was not full (about 120GB remaining). The 1TB portable external drive shows about 850GB used. What's up?
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One possibility is that you are using compression on your laptop hard drive and when you make the backup on the external USB drive, compression is off.
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Sorry, but I don't know. My wife hasn't even half-filled the 1TB drive yet!
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this is one drive and stores 64 gigs. hope you have better luck than i did. I used it to store anime episodes and after about the first 10 episodes it would say corrupted data from there on. also did the same with anything else i put on it and i dont have that problem with other drives
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When you mention over 1 million files I don't think you wold need to back these up on a regular basis. In this case it is best to use software that will only backup files that have changed since the last backup. The initial backup will take quite awhile to perform but any subsequent backups should be quick. So, as mentioned here, an external USB drive can be connected to the WD My Book and backed up. If you provide more details it would help.
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Yes, 1TB equals 1048GB so there's plenty of room for 500+350=850GB of storage.
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I don't think it matters as long as you have enough space. I have everything on an external drive because i do interviews off of Skype for my podcast, and store everything off of the laptop itself.
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Regardless - Go with WD or even Seagate. I have 5 portable drives (2 WD, 2 Seagate, 1 Toshiba) the Toshiba is the newest. I treat them all the same but the Toshiba is the only one crapping out on me in less than a year. Their laptops are KILLER though. It's possible that I just got a dud, but that's my current experience.
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I have an old 120 GB laptop drive hooked up w USB, works fine. I see in the reviews, people have hooked up 3 and 4 terabyte drives.
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I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.
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It is actually 8gb disguised as a 128 GB drive. Windows will report 128gb available but if you test it, it only holds 8gb.
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When formatted properly there was plenty of space. Around 30 I think. But drive died after 2 months.
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I put my media on micro sd cards which are pretty crazy cheap now. The unaccounted for space is in system partitions.
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In file explorer the C: drive is displayed to have 97.4 GB total hard drive space. Overall I recommend this laptop, I've owned it for about a year and use it for IT studies and general use.
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Presently I have a drive connected to it as a backup device for my laptop. Temporarily. However it is mostly used to check drives and retrieve data.
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It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.
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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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I've been using 120gb with another 120gb as extra storage. I therefore think 500gb is ample, especially if you can always get external storage later for backup. I run windows8.1.