By Matt Hanson
When it comes to backing up your important data, there’s always an argument for more space. Having large capacity drives lets you make full backups of various PCs, as well as safely store huge amounts of files – particularly important if you’re a professional photographer, for example.
Even home users will see the appeal of large capacity hard drives, thanks to our habit of taking photos with our smartphones of everything that moves. If you’re using hard drives in a RAID array that mirrors data across hard drives (essential for data redundancy in case of any errors or failures), then large capacities are also welcome, as you’re essentially halving the capacities you’ve bought (two 4GB hard drives will only give your 4GB of space in RAID 1, rather than 8GB, for example).
That’s why we’re so pleased to see hard drives, such as the WD Red, come in large capacities. The WD Red, and the version we’re reviewing, comes in capacities up to 8TB, while still remaining the same size and shape as other 3.5-inch hard drives.
If 8TB sounds like a lot of data to trust in one hard drive (and you don’t fancy or cannot afford a second one for mirroring), …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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