January 11, 20188 yr Commercial Member So for backups I have been using a Thermaltake HDD caddy. I purchased a few 3TB HDDs on pop them in and out when needed. But I see Seagate has the large 8TB backups like this: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-External-Desktop-Storage-STEL8000100/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1515711331&sr=8-3&keywords=Seagate+8TB+Hard+disk For 8TB the price seems pretty good. At Xmas they were at $149! But had to snag a GeForce 1080 first, ha! So I was just curious if any simmers have purchased/used these monsters? If so, do you break them down into different partitions or leave them whole? Pros? Cons? "Must have more power! ooops, I mean more space!" Clutch Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
January 12, 20188 yr I have the ST8000AS0002 as a backup drive for my NAS, which is supposedly the internal version of the drive inside this enclosure. It has been working fine for about 2 years now. It's an SMR drive so there are some limitations (plenty of articles online explaining SMR), but for backup/archive use, this is an absolute non-issue. I've never noticed any slowdowns when copying data to it since the drive is smart enough to mask the drawbacks of SMR for the most part. The only thing to keep in mind is that you can't use it in RAID, and if you do a lot of random writes to the drive (ie. using it as an ordinary OS/application drive), there will be the occasional slowdown as the drive has to rewrite a lot of the shingled tracks. -
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