SentaiBrad Posted July 11, 2016 Author Share Posted July 11, 2016 As the title says. Bought a 8TB External, took it out of the enclosure and put it in my PC. Now I get to transfer my emulators folder over to it. xD https://i.imgur.com/4ThnlGN.png https://i.imgur.com/uyqJLgj.png I'll get to play games again in 8 hours. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 That's one massive book your writing there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 I want one. What did you pay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 xD I see what you did there. They're Western Digital MyBook's, so I just named them similarly so I know which ones they are. I grabbed it on sale for the 4th of July Sale on NewEgg for about $250. It was odd taking the drive out too, but it worked flawlessly. Now I have an empty USB3.0 case. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I have cannabilized multiple externals I usually throw the enclosures out but I could see keeping one who knows when you may have a need for it. I've also run into issues where when removed from the externals controller card the data on the drive is unrecognizable so this is best performed before you start adding data to the drive. Main reason I haven't gotten one is that I can get 2 5TB externals for a better price usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Nice i got a 8 tb myself. It's nice having most games on one drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis524 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Nice! I need to pick up at least 2 of these for what I have and am planning to do. PSX, PS2, oXbox, and Wii iso's over all regions will take up alot of space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 alexis524 said Nice! I need to pick up at least 2 of these for what I have and am planning to do. PSX, PS2, oXbox, and Wii iso's over all regions will take up alot of space I've got Wii and GameCube on a separate external because my Wii (now Wii U) is modded, so I can play directly on the console. PS1, PSP and PS2 games are all compressed with specific formats. PS1 is compressed with PBP's and it combines multiple discs. Mednafen reads these natively. PSP and PS2 games are compressed with CSO's (at least most of them, some don't work in CSO's). PPSSPP and PCSX2 read these natively. In the case of PS2 I saved over 600GB, so the time it took me to do this was worth it. Xbox games I have too, but they're extracted so they can get FTPed in to my Xbox, so they thankfully don't take up all of that space (Xbox emulation pretty much doesn't exist). DS games I also used a trim tool for, so the roms are also a bit smaller as well. Some games also don't work well trimmed, but the overall savings is better. The Wii and GameCube games are also trimmed. My collection, all combined and uncompressed would be 5-6TB easily. DOS76 said I have cannabilized multiple externals I usually throw the enclosures out but I could see keeping one who knows when you may have a need for it. I've also run into issues where when removed from the externals controller card the data on the drive is unrecognizable so this is best performed before you start adding data to the drive. Main reason I haven't gotten one is that I can get 2 5TB externals for a better price usually. The first thing I did was pull it out and put it in my PC (also bought a decent sized SATA Cable), but the drive was automatically readable thankfully. You probably could find better deals, that may save you a bit of money, but I also didn't want to pick up more drives to take up extra space. The benefit of the 8TB is that it's only one drive. I have 2 4TB WD MyBook's (the little brother to my 8TB), and they're champs, but they take up space and 2 AC jacks on my surge protector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 That's why I love these after there is no more room for internal drives these are great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 Yea, that's actually on my list. The two 4TB externals I have are from when I had my other PC, and it was maxed on HDD's. This computer has two more slots for HDD's, and still some room for M.2's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 DOS76 said That's why I love these after there is no more room for internal drives these are great! That thing's cool. Is it fairly quiet? How big is that rear fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 SentaiBrad said Now I get to transfer my emulators folder over to it. xD Over 1.1 million ROM's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 Yea it was like 1.2 million files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 They are fairly quiet I have 4 of them connected to my server which is right next to my basement entertainment center and they don't bother me plus fan settings are adjustable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 4?!? What ever you get paid, I'll take too. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I bought and filled them slowly over a 5 year period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 DOS76 said I have 4 of them Shit! Hey, Derek, weren't you one of those guys is a Topic way back that had a bunch of those Hard-Drive screenshots (as Brad has in the 1st Post), and you had like drives C-Z? It's not a bad lookin' little box, either. I bet it looks cool with 4 of those lined-up, side-by-side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Yeah I have A-Z with a 27th drive that is mounted to a folder and a 28th drive that has no letter that backs up the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cash84 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Need to get one of these ;) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219033&FM=1 21tb for movies and tv shows and 1.5 for Roms. I also have launch box with emulators on this to stream everything to all three separate htpc. Imaging if 20 8TB on this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I would love to go rackmount! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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