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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"I must have lucked out."
Pros: All that is missing is an Ethernet port
Cons: You only get 931GB and not the full 1TB
Summary: I must have lucked out as I have three of these guys and have not had a problem with either of them Mine are currently connected to a FW800 controller by SIIG (PCI-X) and I get huge data throughput. I use these drives in my data backup for my company. You also don't need to use their software to use the drive - the drivers are located on the CD and that is all I needed to get it to work with FW800 (didn't need to set it up with USB first as someone mentioned). This may be a limitation of Windows, but it would be nice to get somewhere close to the 1TB of formatted capacity when running in RAID-0 instead of 931GB (I'm losing 70GB to the overhead?!?) which is why I give it a "Very Good" rating and not "Excellent".
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all hard drive manufacturers are counting in thousands not in power of 2 (aka 1024). So 1To means 1,000,000,000 bytes and when you access it with Windows who express the size in power of 2 you have this simple math 1,000,000,000/ (1024*1024*1024) = 0,931 aka 931Mb for Windows.
This is written in a very small font size 6pt at the end of technical documentation.
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