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Author Topic: Which disk to use?  (Read 5424 times)

rockberto

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Which disk to use?
« on: January 23, 2020, 07:57:21 AM »
Hello to all and sorry for my bad english. I'd like to know what is the maximum capacity of each hard drive and the better model I can use in zidooo uhd2000 (western digital red, or
 seagate ironwolf etc...) I'd like to use two 12 tb or 14 tb.
Thanx in advance

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Re: Which disk to use?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2020, 09:09:17 AM »
14TB is the max I know to have been tested although larger should work.

Speed is unimportant for media so I'd be looking at noise and price as main factors. WD Red is a good choice.

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Re: Which disk to use?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2020, 12:24:12 AM »
many thanx!

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Re: Which disk to use?
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2020, 12:49:49 PM »
There is no actual limit.

Somebody reported a 16TB Seagate Ironwolf working too.

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Re: Which disk to use?
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2020, 07:12:09 PM »
Can these players support external hard drives of 20tb?

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Re: Which disk to use?
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2020, 01:19:15 PM »
Can these players support external hard drives of 20tb?
I would be very careful buying such a drive. Above 16 Tbyte 512e AF (=Advanced Format doing 512 Byte sector emulation) won't work anymore and these will be 4Kn (=4K Native with 4K Logical and 4K Physical sectors). I doubt these will work with Android? Never tried one.
Maybe via USB there is still a trick possible but Internal/SATA I doubt.
« Last Edit: December 07, 2020, 09:26:10 AM by Nice Monkey »

 

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