J JerryB1 Baseband Member Messages 46 Location USA Mar 8, 2010 #1 What is the advantage of a TB drive? I'm not a gamer...
Atomic Rooster Omnipotent One Messages 11,161 Location USA Mar 8, 2010 #2 More storage, plain and simple.
GibsonSGKing Daemon Poster Messages 1,384 Mar 8, 2010 #3 JerryB said: What is the advantage of a TB drive? I'm not a gamer... Click to expand... A TB is just 1,000 GB, just like a GB is 1,000 MB, and so on.
JerryB said: What is the advantage of a TB drive? I'm not a gamer... Click to expand... A TB is just 1,000 GB, just like a GB is 1,000 MB, and so on.
wol-va-rine Fully Optimized Messages 2,104 Mar 8, 2010 #4 GibsonSGKing said: A TB is just 1,024 GB, just like a GB is 1,024 MB, and so on. Click to expand... fixed...
GibsonSGKing said: A TB is just 1,024 GB, just like a GB is 1,024 MB, and so on. Click to expand... fixed...
GibsonSGKing Daemon Poster Messages 1,384 Mar 8, 2010 #5 wol-va-rine said: fixed... Click to expand... Well, I was just being general. In every other unit it's by 1000's, including in bytes, but the NTFS system formats it by 1024, but a TB drive has 1000 gb, that's why when you format it with NTFS it's smaller. I think....
wol-va-rine said: fixed... Click to expand... Well, I was just being general. In every other unit it's by 1000's, including in bytes, but the NTFS system formats it by 1024, but a TB drive has 1000 gb, that's why when you format it with NTFS it's smaller. I think....
Disenchanterx In Runtime Messages 164 Mar 8, 2010 #6 The conversion is 1024 MB etc. and thats what the computer goes by (2^10) But.... HDD companies base off of 1000 bytes
The conversion is 1024 MB etc. and thats what the computer goes by (2^10) But.... HDD companies base off of 1000 bytes
Legodude522 Daemon Poster Messages 1,308 Location Texas Mar 8, 2010 #7 JerryB said: What is the advantage of a TB drive? I'm not a gamer... Click to expand... More space for things like por... err music.
JerryB said: What is the advantage of a TB drive? I'm not a gamer... Click to expand... More space for things like por... err music.
L lostsoul62 Baseband Member Messages 38 Mar 8, 2010 #8 A 32 meg buffer instead of a 16 meg buffer with anything smaller
nbrikha In Runtime Messages 336 Mar 9, 2010 #9 Legodude522 said: More space for things like por... err music. Click to expand... yes, music. Lots and lots and lots of "music." 250 gb of "music"
Legodude522 said: More space for things like por... err music. Click to expand... yes, music. Lots and lots and lots of "music." 250 gb of "music"
wol-va-rine Fully Optimized Messages 2,104 Mar 9, 2010 #10 lostsoul62 said: A 32 meg buffer instead of a 16 meg buffer with anything smaller Click to expand... not always true, it depends on which model you buy, 1TB drives have caches that range from 8MB to 64MB...
lostsoul62 said: A 32 meg buffer instead of a 16 meg buffer with anything smaller Click to expand... not always true, it depends on which model you buy, 1TB drives have caches that range from 8MB to 64MB...