Got Western Digital® My Passport® Essential™ SE 1TB Portable Hard Drive-USB 3.0 as my very first portable hard drive because my backup Fantom Drive decided to die when I was away from NYC.
After this portable Hard drive, I might have to consider getting a secondary backup drive since what went with the death of the Fantom was my life between 2007 and 2010... (Thank God that I didn't really get too much done during these 3 years and, speaking of memory dump. 8-O lol sigh)
I decided to not install the WD Smartware backup software because a lot of people out there seem to have complaints about how this software slows their computer down.
The problem I have with the drive is that, although it claims to be a 1 TB drive, you only have 931 GB available to store your files. Ended up, this is something that gets many people really confused--- not only me.
So said them smart people... 1 TB can be 931 GB. 8-O
It all depends on how you classify TB.
Essentially, the Hard drive vendors use decimal numbering system while that used by the operating systems, binary.
1 TB in decimal numbering system = 1,000,000,000,000 (10^12) (Base 10)
1 TB in binary numbering system = 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) (Base 2)
Since the operating system counts in binary, 10^12 equates to around 931GB.
1TB = 1,000,000,000,000B
931.32*1024*1024*1024 =931.32*(2^10)*(2^10)*(2^10)=1,000,000,000,000B
Thus, 1 TB=931 GB
Tricky and guess this is why they teach us math in school... 8-O lol
How do I like this hard drive so far?
Well, it's been trying to back up my system containing 120 something gb of data... and only up to 30%... for the past 3-4 hours or so while my mom and I are busy packing...
Don't know who I should blame--- Windows 7 backup or the drive..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
--unless simply the fact that no USB 3 port available on this hard working machine...
After this portable Hard drive, I might have to consider getting a secondary backup drive since what went with the death of the Fantom was my life between 2007 and 2010... (Thank God that I didn't really get too much done during these 3 years and, speaking of memory dump. 8-O lol sigh)
I decided to not install the WD Smartware backup software because a lot of people out there seem to have complaints about how this software slows their computer down.
The problem I have with the drive is that, although it claims to be a 1 TB drive, you only have 931 GB available to store your files. Ended up, this is something that gets many people really confused--- not only me.
So said them smart people... 1 TB can be 931 GB. 8-O
It all depends on how you classify TB.
Essentially, the Hard drive vendors use decimal numbering system while that used by the operating systems, binary.
1 TB in decimal numbering system = 1,000,000,000,000 (10^12) (Base 10)
1 TB in binary numbering system = 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) (Base 2)
Since the operating system counts in binary, 10^12 equates to around 931GB.
1TB = 1,000,000,000,000B
931.32*1024*1024*1024 =931.32*(2^10)*(2^10)*(2^10)=1,000,000,000,000B
Thus, 1 TB=931 GB
Tricky and guess this is why they teach us math in school... 8-O lol
How do I like this hard drive so far?
Well, it's been trying to back up my system containing 120 something gb of data... and only up to 30%... for the past 3-4 hours or so while my mom and I are busy packing...
Don't know who I should blame--- Windows 7 backup or the drive..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
--unless simply the fact that no USB 3 port available on this hard working machine...
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