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Anyone here ever used an Acer RevoCenter, specifically this one ? Thanks to a class action settlement thing involving eMachines, I was given the opportunity to get one of these brand new for $35 bucks. I was thinking of putting 3 x 3tb WD Greens in it, as the 2tb it comes with is apparently a Green. This thing would be replacing an ancient Dell 1ghz Pent. 3  that I slapped a 320gb drive into about 7 years ago as my form of NAS
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I need a PCIe controller card for a JBOD setup that has to have a minimum of 2 eSATA and 2 internal SATA ports. Poking around on newegg brings up a number of cards by Syba, StarTech, SIIG, Rosewill and Sedna for under $60, and some HighPoint cards $40-$100 and up. Of the brands listed, I've only ever heard of HighPoint before, in relation to RAID cards. So I guess what I'm asking is what are the good brands and what is trash ? I'm not inclined to go super cheap, but I want to avoid spending more than $115-$125.
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Jun 5, 2016 07:44
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So what's the thread opinion of HGST brand drives ? I need as many TBs as I can get for $200-250ish, up to 4 physical drives. I found brand new 3TB HUS724030ALA640 (0F14689) @ $50 each on newegg, would get 4 of them.
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Nov 11, 2019 18:52
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IOwnCalculus posted:If you're looking at https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822145894 - those aren't new drives. goHardDrive wipes the SMART data and provides their own warranty. To be fair, they're decent, I've bought some 8TB drives from them and the exchange on a few DOA drives was painless. Yeah those are the exact drives I was talking about. As to why 4 of these drives, cost is the hard limiter for me in this situation + the device they are going in has 4 bays. The cost of a pair of 8 or 10TBs exceeds budget, as does the cost of a single 12. e2a: I hadn't really thought about shucking externals, I'll keep that in mind, I'm not in any hurry and Black Friday isn't that far off.
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Nov 11, 2019 21:18
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Any suggestions for a computer case that can hold a standard ATX mobo/psu along with six 3.5 SATA disk drives and potentially two 2.5 SSDs and is also not infested with blingy crap & overpriced?
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Feb 5, 2021 23:46
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So what is the somewhat budget conscious SATA host card (or cards) to get for hooking up 8 x 3TB spinner drives in a Win10 PC ? I have never done a RAID setup before so IDK what RAID level/type to aim for. Usage would be a mix of holding backups from another PC + holding various videos/movies to play on another PC.
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Apr 22, 2021 04:23
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I'm building a new computer and I wanted to consolidate JBOD 4 x 2GB WD Blacks onto 1 or 2 drives and was looking at the WD Blues. Did WD pretty much stop doing CMR for Blue drives ? Blue 4TB CMR (WD40EZRZ) is $100 on WDs site while the SMR version (WD40EZAZ) is $65. 8TB Blue (WD80EAZZ) is CMR for whatever reason and is $130 so I'd be getting a better deal just getting that instead of 2 x 4TBs IMO. I've never used a SMR drive so I have no idea how much of a performance difference SMR is over CMR.
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Aug 14, 2022 06:53
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Whats a good app for Windows to help me move/consolidate the contents of four individual disks onto one disk ? Need to move ~5TB data total off of some 2TBs onto an 8TB, all of which are WD Black drives.
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Oct 27, 2022 18:37
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These are just a bunch of non-OS bearing NTFS disks with the various accumulated digital crap I have built up over the last how many ever years. I'm building a new box soon and am just wanting to consolidate 6 drives onto 2.
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Oct 28, 2022 06:04
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Is there a list or site out there that can quickly tell me what currently available external drives have a CMR type drive in them ? I have to replace an external used to hold backups so write speed is a priority. I vaguely recall seeing a site mentioned here that had to do with the $/gb of externals & shucking them but I cant remember the url.
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Mar 15, 2023 16:50
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The Best Buy about a mile from my house has the WD 8TB My Book (WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN) for $160. I'd love to know what the significant differences are between the various Easystore, My Book, and Elements models beyond the different capacity ranges & external case appearance.
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CopperHound posted:Easystore is just the best buy version of elements. Sorry if I didn't make it clear (or mention it at all) I'm not interested in buying this to shuck it, I need to replace an external that gets used 6 days a week by a backup app that does disk images of some other disks I have. In the last day or 2 its been doing things (randomly disappearing from Windows, I/O errors) that make me think its dying. Already copied off everything on it to another drive.
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