Why does it not show up as a 3TB? It instead appears to be a 750 GB.
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Most drive manufacturers quote their product's capacity along the lines of "One megabyte equals 1,000 bytes times 1,000 bytes." However, all operating systems (that I am aware of) consider a megabyte to be 1,024 bytes times 1,024 bytes. A TB according to the drive manufacturer is therefore 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000 (1,000,000,000,000 bytes) but your OS is thinking 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 (1,099,511,627,776 bytes). The 99,511,627,776 difference is in large part why your OS is reporting the drive to be smaller than the manufacturer's claim. There are, depending on manufacturer and OS, also losses due to formatting differences, allocation tables, utilities included on the disc itself, etc. Hope this helps.
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I have several Rocpros. On my PC, the 3TB drives show up as 2.72TB, you never get the full capacity listed. Rocstor is a GREAT company with EXCELLENT customer service. Give them a call directly and they will solve your issues promptly. GT
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That will depend on your OS and drive manufacturer. I'm using Win 7 and a Seagate drive so I had to partition my 3TB into 2 logical drives. Don't quite understand why but that's what Seagate said I had to do.
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I noticed that the hard disk sizes were somewhat different as I looked at different systems. I chose one with a 750 gig hard disk. Plenty of free space.
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It worked 3TB drive only after firmware update [ didn't even work with usb 3.0 without update] and following instruction from this link. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5. hope it helps.
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Each drive will always be a bit different, as no two drives will have the exactly the same free space. Mine is 931GB
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It's because those are 1000MB Gigabytes instead of the 1024MB Gibibytes Windows use to measure the size, Those can also be called Gigabytes, hence the confusion. If you plug it on a mac it will say it's 30GB, but the file sizes will also seem bigger so no additional data can be stored
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just like you i'm not a tech savvy but this item is working perfect on my ps4and 1.5 tb is better than 1tb ;) (the 500gb from my ps4, I installed it on my ps3)
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Yes, it is a 3TB hard drive. When you take it out of the box and hook it up to your computer, go to "Get Info" and it will show you the capacity of itself. LaCie rocks! The HD truly works as easily as they advertise. I give it five stars. Jude Hibler
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Have you received it yet? I am curious if the unit has a 250 or 320 gb hard drive. both sizes are indicated in the description.
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I installed an internal 3tb drive with no problems, all 3 tb useable. Firmware Version 1.0.1.52 will support 4tb external, but I'm not sure about internal. I would think it would.
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It is actually 8gb disguised as a 128 GB drive. Windows will report 128gb available but if you test it, it only holds 8gb.
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Yes, I'm running the 8tb version and it has the full 8tb, but for some reason I think the device used the first drive closes to the power button first for storage in this setup, but yes it works!
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My HDD IS 750GB and shows 698GB is available for use. It keeps 2 GB for partion table and addressing storing data. I don't thing that amount of space is normal to keep reserved for system usage. Try to talk to seller or do low level formating maybe that works for you. I am not sure what is wrong with your HDD.
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I have a 3tb drive in mine and it works fine I don't see any reason why it won't work with a 4 Tb drive
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I just connected a 500GB (WD500AADS, ASIN: B002P3KO4C search it on Amazon) drive using a sata to USB connector (ASIN: B000J01I1G search it on Amazon). I had to use the tuner to format (fat32), and it shows up as a 465GB drive. I hit the PVR button, and recorded a sample, no problem. I imagine the pre-packaged drives would work the same.
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I'm currently in contact with the TP-Link customer support because my 2TB LaCie Quadra v3 isn't recognized at all. It is running NTFS but might be the new version. Real annoying because it says nowhere that there might be a problem on the TP-Link website or manuals or whatever.
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Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB.The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.