Best hard drive for media playback

[all4dom 101]

And should I just do a copy & paste could windows copy the drive for me?

[Guest asrequested]

And should I just do a copy & paste could windows copy the drive for me?

 

When the pool is created, windows sees it as a regular drive. So you just copy to it like any other drive.

 

https://stablebit.com/drivepool

[CBers 7450]

For DrivePool, also read DriveBender.

 

They are both very mature and do the same thing.

 

I believe DriveBender is cheaper than DrivePool and has a longer trial period.

 

The developers of DriveBender have a few exciting new releases coming out soon, especially DriveXtender.

 

https://www.drivextender.com

 

"Drive Xtender is compatible with Drive Bender, Cloud Xtender and StableBit’s DrivePool."

 

So even @ might be interested

[PenkethBoy 2068]

sounds very similar to Stable Bits Clouddrive from a quick read

[Guest asrequested]

I think I remember reading other new users finding stablebit easier to set up.

[extensive 20]

I personally tried both years ago and drivebender won for me.  I use it at home and where I work

Edited March 13, 2018 by extensive

[CBers 7450]

I personally tried both years ago and drivebender won for me. I use it at home and where I work

Are you registered on the DriveBender forums?

[extensive 20]

Are you registered on the DriveBender forums?

yup, same username.

[all4dom 101]

Hi guys. Just started adding the new hard drives. Queation....my 6tb shows only 5.45tb free space. Does that sound about right? I know x amount of space is reserved when setting up a new hard deive.

[naeonline 27]

Yes. Drive sizes are labeled from the manufacturers in base-10 (denoted by KB, MB, GB, TB... in 1000s) and Windows shows drive size in base-2 (denoted by KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB... in 1024s).

6TB = 6,000,000,000,000 Bytes = 6,000,000,000 KB = 6,000,000 MB = 6,000 GB

6,000,000,000,000 Bytes / 1024 = 5,859,375,000 KiB / 1024 = 5,722,045 MiB / 1024 = 5,587 GiB / 1024 = 5.45 TiB

 

The XB vs XiB naming is what throws most people off because traditionally computers Operating Systems have listed the XiB units as XB.  Some OSes, such as MacOS now list the XB size as the actual XB size instead of the XiB size.

 

RAM is like this as well.  A system that reports 8GB of RAM actually has 8GiB of RAM.