Seagate Desktop, 8 TB, External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac and Two-year Rescue Services (STGY8000400), Black

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Like other products in the SanDisk Professional line, the G-Drive ArmorATD is strongly geared to Mac use. It's best for traveling Mac users looking for a drive that can withstand a tumble or a rainstorm and want better capacity for the price than they would get with an SSD. In normale omstandigheden wordt de externe harde schijf zelf door uw besturingssysteem gedetecteerd, zonder tussenkomst van stuurprogramma's, software of firmware-updates. That said, as a platter-based hard drive, it's best equipped to store a game library; you're better off loading the games you're currently playing from an SSD. If you conservatively figure an average game size of 100GB, the 4TB version tested here can hold about 40 titles, serving as the stylish main repository of your collection for years to come, and for a much more modest outlay than you'd spend on an SSD of similar capacity. Who It's For De schijf die zonder inspringing is vermeld, is de fysieke schijf. Wanneer u deze selecteert, ziet u normaal 'media' in de naam. In Mac OS X versie 10.6 tot 10.10, zal bij deze vermelding de capaciteit van de schijf vermeld zijn in plaats van de tekst 'media'. De vermeldingen met een inspringing variëren afhankelijk van hoe de schijf is geformatteerd, maar die vermeldingen zullen volumes of containers zijn die geassocieerd zijn met de fysieke schijf.

If you have a large media-file collection—perhaps you are a photo or video editor, or maybe a movie buff—you'll likely need several terabytes of space in which to store it. In that case, your best option is a desktop-class hard drive. We define these as having one or more spinning-platter drives inside and requiring a dedicated power cable plugged into AC power to work. (Of course, in this scenario, your files are going to have to stay at your desk.) Still, while external SSDs are cheaper than they were a few years ago (see the best we've tested at the preceding link), they're far from a complete replacement for spinning drives. Larger external drives designed to stay on your desk or in a server closet still almost exclusively use spinning-drive mechanisms, taking advantage of platter drives' much higher capacities and much lower prices compared with SSDs. In addition to their physical shape differences, USB ports on the computer side will variously support USB 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2, depending on the age of the computer and how up to date its marketing materials are. You don't have to worry about the differences among these three USB specs when looking at ordinary hard drives, though. All are inter-compatible, and you won't see a speed bump from one versus the other in the hard drive world. The drive platters' own speed is the limiter, not the flavor of USB 3. Selecteer de vermelding met een inspringing voor uw schijf en klik op de knop " Mount" (Koppel) bovenaan in Disk Utility (Schijfhulpprogramma). Als de schijf niet wordt gekoppeld, duidt dit op enige beschadiging van het bestandssysteem. Nadat u in System Information/System Profiler (Systeeminformatie/Systeemprofiel) bent, gaat u als volgt te werk:

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Zoek de naam van uw schijf. Als u merkt dat uw schijf wordt gedetecteerd, lees dan verder. Als dat niet geval is, klikt u hier. Most gamers should be able to store their entire collection on the Gaming Hub. Despite its name, the Seagate FireCuda Gaming Hub is also good for storing movies, photos, and most any other files you might want to store. And it fits in with any gaming setup with its cool RGB lighting. In Mac OS X versie 10.6 tot 10.10 klikt u op Verify Disk (Controleer schijf) om na te gaan of het volume moet worden gerepareerd. Opmerking voor One Touch with Hub-schijven: One Touch with Hub-schijven waarop beveiliging is ingeschakeld, worden weergegeven als niet-geïnitialiseerd en niet-toegewezen totdat ze worden ontgrendeld. Meer informatie vindt u in dit artikel: One Touch with Hub niet-geïnitialiseerd en niet-toegewezen. The LaCie 2big RAID desktop array offers cavernous capacity to creative types and others who need to store and work with massive amounts of data. Available in capacities up to 16TB when we reviewed it, it has since added even higher volume, up to a monstrous 40TB.

Equally important, is by using a 3.5-inch hard disk drive the performance it has on tap will be noticeably better than what any 2.5-inch model has to offer. In the case of the Desktop Expansion series this does not mean a 7200rpm hard drive. Instead it makes use a cooler running, lower noise 5900rpm drive (Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB) which still has a faster rotational speed than the 5400rpm 2.5-inch models we have looked at in the past. Mix in more read/write heads, large platters and not only does the Desktop Expansion series promise better performance, better capacity, and lower asking price per TB, and will stay faster long after the various smaller Portable models have gotten slow.If you buy a larger desktop drive with two or more discrete spinning-platter drive mechanisms inside, you'll almost certainly have the option to configure the drive as a RAID array using included software. Depending on which RAID level you choose, you can prioritize capacity, speed, or data redundancy, or some combination thereof. The only case with hard drives where the USB standard matters much is if you connect a drive to an old-style, low-bandwidth USB 2.0 port, which is better reserved for items like keyboards and mice. (Also, if it's a portable drive, that USB 2.0 port may not supply sufficient power to run the drive in the first place, so the speed shortfall may be moot.) Any remotely recent computer will have some faster USB 3-class ports, though. Als u de schijf niet kunt herstellen met het proces van Repair Disk (Herstel schijf), kunt u de schijf het best opnieuw formatteren om na te gaan of het een fysiek of logisch probleem is. WAARSCHUWING: door een schijf te formatteren, worden alle gegevens op die schijf gewist.

Open Finder > Applications (Toepassingen) > Utilities (Hulpprogramma's) > Disk Utility (Schijfhulpprogramma). The LaCie 2big RAID array promises the reliability and delivers the performance benefit you'd expect from 7,200rpm platters, magnified by the default RAID 0 setting, while the optional RAID 1 setting is available if you want data redundancy. (A JBOD mode is also available if you don't want to use RAID.) Who It's ForAls de schijf niet wordt gedetecteerd in Disk Utility (Schijfhulpprogramma), lees dan de sectie Systeeminformatie/Systeemprofiel. You'll only see the speed benefits of Thunderbolt, however, if you have a drive that's SSD-based, or a multi-drive, platter-based desktop DAS that is set up in a RAID array. For ordinary external hard drives, Thunderbolt is very much the exception, not the rule. It tends to show up mainly in products geared toward the Mac market. Als de schijf niet wordt weergegeven op uw bureaublad of in Finder, controleert u Disk Utility (Schijfhulpprogramma).