Western Digital 1TB Black Caviar

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  1. Posts : 6,618
    W7x64 Pro, SuSe 12.1/** W7 x64 Pro, XP MCE
       #1

    Western Digital 1TB Black Caviar


    I just ordered this drive from TD, and I got to wondering if there is anything that I need to do different for it to be able to use the full capacity of the drive? I will probably partition the first 100GBs for adding another OS to my secondary rig, and the remainder in multiple partitions for archiving data.
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  2. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #2

    There isn't anything special that you should have to do. As long as it your box recognizes the drive, you should get all of the capacity. A 1TB drive will show up as 931GB to Windows 7.
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  3. whs
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       #3

    Hopefully it is formatted NTFS. Else do a Quick Format - unless you like an overnighter. Make sure you don't put 4 primaries on it - 3 primaries and one extended instead. Else you'll be stuck with 4 partitions. If you add another OS, unplug the other drive(s). Then you end up with a completely independent OS installation that you can switch to via the BIOS boot sequence. That is much more convenient than a double boot -- but whom am I telling all that. I bet you knew that all along. LOL Else it is just another disk.
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  4. Posts : 6,618
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       #4

    pparks1 said:
    There isn't anything special that you should have to do. As long as it your box recognizes the drive, you should get all of the capacity. A 1TB drive will show up as 931GB to Windows 7.
    I should be good to go then...thanks.
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  5. Posts : 6,618
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    whs said:
    Hopefully it is formatted NTFS. Else do a Quick Format - unless you like an overnighter. Make sure you don't put 4 primaries on it - 3 primaries and one extended instead. Else you'll be stuck with 4 partitions. If you add another OS, unplug the other drive(s). Then you end up with a completely independent OS installation that you can switch to via the BIOS boot sequence. That is much more convenient than a double boot -- but whom am I telling all that. I bet you knew that all along. LOL Else it is just another disk.
    Mostly, but I wasn't aware that any harddrives were already formatted. I just assumed that they came totally blank out of the box.
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  6. whs
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    I had a couple that were formatted - but those were external drives.
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  7. Posts : 6,618
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    Just got the drive installed, and all is well...at least I didn't hear any clicks and it shows up in the BIOS and the OS, so "knocking on wood" I now have to put it to work.
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  8. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
       #8

    They're good drives. I've had one in operation for about 6 months no issues. I've also got a 750 that's been running for about a year, again, no problems.
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  9. Posts : 6,618
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    I hope so. If so, it will be the first good WDC that I've owned. The only reason that I went this route is because I got fed up with Seagate, and many have said that this is a good drive. Time will tell.
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  10. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
       #10

    I've used nothing but Western Digital hard drives since 1998 and only had two go bad on me, and that was about 6 years ago. I think you'll be fine.
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