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Post by Emig5m on Jun 3, 2020 15:22:51 GMT -5
Size matters (that's what she said) so I hope mine is bigger than yours...lol. 
E-Peen pic: 
Formatted out to 14.5TB and 6.75GB in use. That's a lot of data in use for a freshly formatted drive? Anyway, every time I take my drone out, it's another 30GB of video (4K HDR at high bitrate chews up space like no other). I'm about sick of dicking around with multiple tiny drives that are always out of space so I thought it was time to start getting some real drives that can handle all my 4k filming and start migrating everything from my small drives over and shit-canning those wastes of space. Like a 1TB drive is worth dick to me these days as much 4k filming as I do and tired of my data spanned over multiple drives to where I have to hunt back and forth for the same files that should all be combined into one folder but are spanned across three disks. What's your guys professional opinion? Hard drives lives matter too? |
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 3, 2020 15:26:57 GMT -5
Nice. I have 6TB total of SSD space, but now that Sabrent released those 8TB SSD's, I am thinking about adding one of those.
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 3, 2020 15:56:01 GMT -5
Nice. I have 6TB total of SSD space, but now that Sabrent released those 8TB SSD's, I am thinking about adding one of those. I'm actually thinking about shit-canning all my SDDs! The only time I've ever seen them shine is when copying one large or a bunch of large files from one SSD to another SSD. I'm really not impressed with SSDs as far as game and app loading speed is concerned and many times app/game loading is bottle-necked with splash screens/adverts or DRM like Steam for instance, it's the worst- when I click on Steam it takes 11 seconds before I even see anything happen (the little connecting promp coming up) then you have to wait another few seconds for it to connect to your account and then the app will finally start to load. Such BS when you're supposed to have the fastest SSDs on the planet and they're bottle-necked with stupid shit. Same with most games, you have to wait through all the intros and advert screens to play until the actual game starts to load! And then SSDs are so expensive for a rinky-dink amount of storage that will be obsolete size-wise in no time. I wouldn't recommend a SSD to anyone unless they where barely any more expensive than a mechanical drive of the same size. Even 8TB is a joke to me anymore and I just Googled 8TB SSD and the brand you mentioned came up at the heft price of 1,499.99...such a rip off...better to spend the money on a 2080ti! And you would think with much less moving parts and being so small and light that they should easily be cheaper to manufacture than a regular mechanical hard drive and not be priced so astronomically.
So far I've been very impressed with this new NAS drive. It's been copying many gigabytes of files to it very fast and is probably the most quiet mechanical drive I've ever owned! I could shit-can my overpriced, undersized, and underwhelming SSDs for these large NAS mechanical drives without second guessing. Don't let synthetic benchmarks, hype, and marketing fool you, only real world performance matters! I've been using SSDs since the Intel 320 series and I'm sorry I ever wasted money on them... Too small, too over-priced, and too under-performing in real world based on the hype....
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 3, 2020 17:14:40 GMT -5
Yeah it's not a priority, of all the things in my PC I think the videocard (GTX 1070) is the one thing that could be better. I'm gonna wait until the next cycle though.
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 3, 2020 17:57:29 GMT -5
Think I'm going to send this drive back. Copying files over to it seemed pretty quiet but loading and playing a video file you hear constant crunching throughout playback where my normal non-NAS Seagate 3TB drive is almost as silent as a SSD after a very short and quiet crunch upon initial file opening. The constant crunching would drive me nuts I think. I'd rather sacrifice performance for quietness so I might have to send this back for something else. I'm going to call Seagate and ask if them about it....
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Post by Cop on Jun 4, 2020 9:06:37 GMT -5
That's more than I have on all my drives combined. I think it might be even more than there is in total on all storage media in this house, lol, counting laptops, phones and games consoles...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 9:11:23 GMT -5
Think I'm going to send this drive back. Copying files over to it seemed pretty quiet but loading and playing a video file you hear constant crunching throughout playback where my normal non-NAS Seagate 3TB drive is almost as silent as a SSD after a very short and quiet crunch upon initial file opening. The constant crunching would drive me nuts I think. I'd rather sacrifice performance for quietness so I might have to send this back for something else. I'm going to call Seagate and ask if them about it.... NAS drives are intended for business and data storage uses. Not ideal for consumer PC's. I'd stick with SSD's (at least for your OS install) because, even throwing out the speed comparisons, they're much more reliable in my experience. Well, at least, the Samsung SSD's are reliable... not sure about other brands as I haven't tried them. |
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 4, 2020 11:06:10 GMT -5
Speaking of SSD's, I've noticed that the Game Bar in Windows 10 always has Capture on by default, lets you record the last 30 seconds at the press of a button. I'll turn it off but then suddenly it's re-enabled by itself, I guess it's a nice thing to have but I don't really need it. Also it's probably using up writes.
*edit* I decided to save some $$ and get a new monitor instead of another SSD. I've always noticed some games run worse with vsync on at 60 or 75hz, but if you turn it off there's mad tearing. New monitor's 144hz and I don't even turn vsync on anymore. Monitor was kind of on the pricey side but damn, you get what you pay for.
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