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Just a quick one really. When can I expect 5TB internal 3.5" hard drives to be generally available?
 
I hope those using huge disks have really good backup strategies.

5gb is a lot of data to lose.
 
So how much space are you actually going to get on a 5TB drive after formatting?

What size are people getting on their existing 3 and 4TB drive?

Could it soon be a case of you buy a 5TB drive but only actually get 4TB?
 
bru said:
So how much space are you actually going to get on a 5TB drive after formatting?

What size are people getting on their existing 3 and 4TB drive?

Could it soon be a case of you buy a 5TB drive but only actually get 4TB?
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If I remember correctly, a 2TB drive is around 1.8TB in size. So I would imagine a 5TB drive would be around 4.5TB. When Hard Drives become 10TB in size and only have 9TB in disk space, the advertising agency will probably come crying and ask manufacturers to say what size the disk actually holds instead of what's advertised.
 
bru said:
So how much space are you actually going to get on a 5TB drive after formatting?

What size are people getting on their existing 3 and 4TB drive?

Could it soon be a case of you buy a 5TB drive but only actually get 4TB?
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is it not that in real terms 1GB is 1024MB not 1000MB so the more you multiply it up the actual size gets further away from the quoted size?

EDIT : or is it 1MB = 1024KB, I vaguely remember something like that from college.
 
paradisiac said:
is it not that in real terms 1GB is 1024MB not 1000MB so the more you multiply it up the actual size gets further away from the quoted size?

EDIT : or is it 1MB = 1024KB, I vaguely remember something like that from college.
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It's because the SI units have been screwed a bit for PC; in general SI units are in 10^3; in computing they're 2^10 because this is a more applicable number.

I believe technically 5TB drives *are* 5TB (5,000,000,000,000 bytes) and the 2^10 definition is now called TiB; so 5TB = 4.54TiB.
 
i always thought that the more you buy the cheaper it gets ( slightly ) but bigger hdd's get more and more expensive, ocuk have a 2tb hdd for £94.99 but the cheapest 4tb hdd is 269.99, so if you buy the 2tb hdd's you could get 3 of them ( 6tb ) for only 284.97 less than £15 quid more for 50% more space.
 
bru said:
So how much space are you actually going to get on a 5TB drive after formatting?

What size are people getting on their existing 3 and 4TB drive?

Could it soon be a case of you buy a 5TB drive but only actually get 4TB?
Click to expand...

A 5TB HDD = 4656.61GB (GiB) or 4.54TB (TiB) as Windows sees it.
 
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