terabyte drive?

[JerryB1]

What is the advantage of a TB drive?
I'm not a gamer...

 

[Atomic Rooster]

More storage, plain and simple.

 

[GibsonSGKing]

What is the advantage of a TB drive?
I'm not a gamer...

A TB is just 1,000 GB, just like a GB is 1,000 MB, and so on.

 

[wol-va-rine]

A TB is just 1,024 GB, just like a GB is 1,024 MB, and so on.

fixed...

 

[GibsonSGKing]

fixed...

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]

The conversion is 1024 MB etc. and thats what the computer goes by (2^10)

But....

HDD companies base off of 1000 bytes

 

[Legodude522]

What is the advantage of a TB drive?
I'm not a gamer...

More space for things like por... err music.

 

[lostsoul62]

A 32 meg buffer instead of a 16 meg buffer with anything smaller

 

[nbrikha]

More space for things like por... err music.

yes, music. Lots and lots and lots of "music." 250 gb of "music"

 

[wol-va-rine]

A 32 meg buffer instead of a 16 meg buffer with anything smaller

not always true, it depends on which model you buy, 1TB drives have caches that range from 8MB to 64MB...