WD format provides "free" 11% extra storage

darkassain said:

Nikolay said:

Do you think I should wait before buying a HDD? I was thinking about buying a 1 TB HDD for Christmas but now I'm thinking about waiting a bit.

wait for sure since that it might just might mean that HDD could go down in price to be competitive...
this has got me waiting on two 2tb drives that i would otherwise lose a huge amount of space on, especially since thats the limit for most drives...
instead im getting a 1 tb in the meantime...:)

That is the problem I have with hardware and I can't bring myself to buy anymore...

I start to buy...say a processor...and then stop myself because I remember that if I wait I can get something better later

cloud8521 said:

Zidane24 said:

darkassain said:

wait for sure since that it might just might mean that HDD could go down in price to be competitive...
this has got me waiting on two 2tb drives that i would otherwise lose a huge amount of space on, especially since thats the limit for most drives...
instead im getting a 1 tb in the meantime...:)

That is the problem I have with hardware and I can't bring myself to buy anymore...

I start to buy...say a processor...and then stop myself because I remember that if I wait I can get something better later

and the cycle starts.

OOO i want that.... but in a week maybe there will be something better that i could afford but if i buy this i cant! and then you end up having a computer from 1990 :O

Unlike your scenario...I know when it is time to buy...

Look at the laptop in my specs...it blows the majority of laptops out of the water and I got it 1 3/4 years ago...almost 2 years now

awenthol said:

I will say, I was pretty disappointed to see that the WD 1.5TB drive I bought a few weeks ago only had 1.36GB usable. I will welcome and await this when it comes time for another.

On a side note, WD needs to get their head out of their (you know what) and stop making that BS crapware unremovable. I bought a 320GB external HD for transporting files and close to 500MB is wasted due to that crap...

you mean 1.36TB right?
first thing i do is reformat to ntfs (well first i compress and backup that junk just in case it proves useful down the road(which is why i seem to need 2 2TB drives now...)) and poof problems gone