Is this plenty of storage for QuickBooks, office, and is the speed decent?
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Yes, the no issue with storage. Storage gets eaten up by video. I have Office for Mac and run Quickbooks for Windows using Parallels software. Its faster than my I-5 8 GB RAM Intel Desktop.
781023
Definitely. There's more than enough storage to store QuickBooks and it should run normally, as this is a fairly powerful computer.
1365938
Yes it is very fast and stable. Can run multiple apps at the same time and no lagging
704789
I've heard yes. However, it takes 32 gig - not much room to actually run any other programs or store files once all is said and done. I didn't get a chance to find out because mine died about 2 weeks ago. Working off a laptop until I decide what to do. Not sure I'm blaming ASUS for that one as I go through machines very fast, lucky if I get 2 years out of anything...
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You will find only negatives answer questions like this. I've had the 128gb model for over a year. I'm a photographer, i keep my lightroom catalog on it and all of my current working files. I transfer large amounts of data between this and my home network as i work, along with editing the files directly on the flash drive. Bottom line is this drive gets used very heavily. Still going strong.
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It's a good choice. I'm pleased with the speed and capabilities. Nice for the price.
791063
Storage options are 256gb, 512gb or one 1TB. Anything else is not Apples standard.
2036996
I load extra software on it,it works fine.75-80mb per sec when you copy files.
1678462
All of these drives are good. It depends on the usage. I use mine in a Drobo array for video editing. They are fast enough, but not super fast. The more data you have stored, the slower they run. Probably need to make sure future drives are "enterprise" models.
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After Formatting it and the OS takes almost 11% of the formatted Drive... 806GB is Available of the 1TB ,which in my opinion it's still a lot, can't really say on the 500GB though
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1 TB would be enough for general home use. I've been using mine for the last two months and I've been regularly using it, since I have a lot of clients and back up documents, files, and videos. I also use it for personal photo and video storage. I've only managed to break through to 50 GB. So, in my view, 1 TB should be enough.
549225
I have Office on the Wind. The hard-drive has more than enough room, and performance is snappy.
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Absolutely. That's what I have in mine, along with 32 GB of RAM and two 4 GB HDDs. It's really fast.
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I would suggest you get a later version that would allow for more ram to be added. This machine is slow. Could be a headache for tasks that require heavy files or working with programs that require speed. I use this for documents and internet surfing.
1297380
I don't know absolutely about the max storage...I only have 180GB but I would think 1TB would be ok. However, it is definitely Win7. it becomes a USB drive, so most OS should be fine.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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Well, all 4 of ours work pretty well, albeit they are not stunningly fast. I did notice the performance really slows down after the first couple TB of small files. But I suspect that's due to Samba, and I wish I could get into the unit, O/S wise, to tune it
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I am not familiar with the programs you are running. With that said, I run WrightSoft which uses a lot of memory and was slow to open. The program opens much faster, and I don't have to run a restart between jobs. This "used to be" done to clear the cache so I wouldn't have high memory usage warnings. QuickBooks was another slow to open program. No longer. I believe that the drives "Learns" to assist with the most used programs. I was a doubter before installation, but figured the speed couldn't get any worse.