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Store edited photos, videos, and games on this 3.5-inch Western Digital hard drive. It has dynamic cache for optimizing allocation between reads and writes, and there's plenty of space to store files with its 4TB capacity.
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4TB and 6TB drives (2 year warranty - Blue)
on August 19, 2016
Posted by: 3DMontana
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These Blue label drives were installed into HP Workstations (z840 and z640) and were easy to install and work fine. I am using these drives to store HD TV recordings. The 4TB drive should store close to 420 1-hour HD shows and the 6TB drives about 640 1-hour HD shows or about 4400 standard TV 1-hour recordings.
I just wish best buy would stock the Black label drives (5 year warranty models). These spinning hard drives transfer data a well under the 6gb/s SATA interface rating.(you need SSD to get those speeds then of course you may want pcie interface for another 10% or so bump in speed). I see on Windows 10 Performance (Task manager) the 4TB has 140mb/s read and 125mb/s write rates (to/from SSD drive on same SATA bus).
I just wish best buy would stock the Black label drives (5 year warranty models). These spinning hard drives transfer data a well under the 6gb/s SATA interface rating.(you need SSD to get those speeds then of course you may want pcie interface for another 10% or so bump in speed). I see on Windows 10 Performance (Task manager) the 4TB has 140mb/s read and 125mb/s write rates (to/from SSD drive on same SATA bus).
My Best Buy number: 2288017978
My Best Buy number: 2288017978
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Store edited photos, videos, and games on this 3.5-inch Western Digital hard drive. It has dynamic cache for optimizing allocation between reads and writes, and there's plenty of space to store files with its 4TB capacity.
would this be compatible with this docking station? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/thermaltake-blacx-duet-hard-drive-enclosure-docking-station-black/9062073.p?id=1219699417766&skuId=9062073 would i be able to download games with this hard drive?
in 2011 I have an eSATA/USB 2.0 (single and dual bays) unit that have 2TB max size - Note: dual bays - only one works with eSATA connection (notebook has to offer 2 addresses for both bays to work, why I purchased single bay too).
in 2014 I purchased the USB 3.0 dual bay model, and these do not have max size. I have two 4TB drives in this unit providing 8TB's (2 drive letters) of storage for my Notebook (recording HD TV shows).
After looking at the link you provided I could not say 100% which unit you are looking. It says USB (but not if 2.0 or 3.0) I tried to see if 5G was in the name (I purchased the first white (Snow edition) 5G models in 2014 that were USB 3.0.) Best Buy pictures do not show the ports available (you do not want the model with an eSATA port).
Now new models are Back like the USB 2.0/eSATA models with 2TB limit, so no help there.
Most likely these are the USB 3.0 models (there is nothing about eSATA interface pointing to the newer unit too).
The units I saw (Aug 2016) in stock at Billings, MT store were the USB 3.0 models (wanted).
http://th.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001950
It is odd that the black 5G model shows 2TB max size while 5G Snow Edition has no max size noted. I do not know what to tell you. I had no issue with the snow edition with 4TB drives. Maybe the original text was written (about 2008) when 2TB was the max size offered on the market and not really a limit.
in 2014 I purchased the USB 3.0 dual bay model, and these do not have max size. I have two 4TB drives in this unit providing 8TB's (2 drive letters) of storage for my Notebook (recording HD TV shows).
After looking at the link you provided I could not say 100% which unit you are looking. It says USB (but not if 2.0 or 3.0) I tried to see if 5G was in the name (I purchased the first white (Snow edition) 5G models in 2014 that were USB 3.0.) Best Buy pictures do not show the ports available (you do not want the model with an eSATA port).
Now new models are Back like the USB 2.0/eSATA models with 2TB limit, so no help there.
Most likely these are the USB 3.0 models (there is nothing about eSATA interface pointing to the newer unit too).
The units I saw (Aug 2016) in stock at Billings, MT store were the USB 3.0 models (wanted).
http://th.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001950
It is odd that the black 5G model shows 2TB max size while 5G Snow Edition has no max size noted. I do not know what to tell you. I had no issue with the snow edition with 4TB drives. Maybe the original text was written (about 2008) when 2TB was the max size offered on the market and not really a limit.
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