The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

Their quality has been plummeting for a while now. They used to put out quite decent products from respectable OEMs. But the latest generations have seen a massive drop in quality. I've always been a fan of OCZ due to my good experiences with their products. It's hard to maintain that positive outlook though when you hear so many reports of questionable failures. I think their RAM is still okay, but that's the limit of products from them that I'll trust.

 

I've not got much anecdotal data one way or the other on OCZ from a personal perspective, the only SSD I had from them was a JMicron, which rendered it a terrible product, but not necessarily terribly made, and not necessarily OCZ's fault either.

However, the anecdotal evidence from my friends speaks volumes, as do the statistics. Almost a dozen people I know owned an OCZ SSD at one point. I think only one of them still works.

 

What do you guys think of this bad boy?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817801093
I'd really like this dock, for connecting a 3Tb drive. And another question, why wouldn't it support 4Tb? GPT is GPT! LOL! I understand limitations on SD/USB, but this isn't the same thing. Most of the docks say up to 3Tb too. Surely this is an oversight...

Perhaps it's because there aren't many 4Tb drives to test. Certainly at the initial release of these docks.

 

Time to find out for yourself, but with caution eh?

 

I suppose. I am itching for a WD 4Tb. I'll have funds in a week. I may just entertain the idea. I need to clone some of my more precious data

 

I haven't played with that style of docking station but you'd think it would work just fine, however I do know that some have had problems with those. So like Sams says, proceed with caution. I'm thinking of going to a 5.25in six-hot swappable 2.5in hdd bay and a two-3.5in hdd hot swap bay.

 

I have said this before, however, I use 2 2TB USB 3.0 docking stations to backup my movies, which I burn to, and then copy the movies to a backup drive that is also USB 3.0. The speed starts at over 90 MBps, and then filters down to about 50-60MBps.

I also backup my entire system on one of these docking stations, which normally take about 20-25 minutes. The data that is backed up currently is 86GB, however when I get rid of all the crap it gets down to about 40-50GB.

 

My current Thermaltake(USB 2.0/eSATA) dock, has served me well for quite some time. I'm not sure if the eSATA cable is bad, or the PCB/chip. I'm betting people are either rough with them, or... the 3.0 issues initially, were due to bad drivers. I've read a bit on that. It's not uncommon for bad Sata cables. So I'm really curious about that. As well as the ports on my mobo.

I think I will proceed. With caution

 

Kevin,

I saw your post on the BD-Rebuilder thread. Have you tried to backup the Red 2 movie? BD-RB complains about the target being too small in full movie backup but will backup the Movie Only to either DVD9 or BD25, the source is 48GB but the actual movie is 22GB uncompressed. I tried it with DVDFab and it gets 54% through and then bombs. This brings up another question since I haven't played with Fab lately, have you made a Fab mountable ISO? Can you setup a virtual player with Fab now and have your complete library to select from on a hdd??

 

No on all counts LOL! Though I've been meaning to pick up Red 2. Liked the first one.

That one may be one of those discs, with multiple playlists. That can cause a multitude of problems. Especially a proper backup.

 

That's exactly what the problem is! It has at least 20 playlists.

I haven't watched Red 2 yet but like you I liked the original so I'm hoping that 2 will be good too.

Good call Kev! ;D

 

Well, I did it :S I bought the Syba dual 3.0 Dock. As well as a 4Tb WD40EZRX. I eagerly await it joining the ranks It's going in the Dock first, for [Shoots(edited)] and giggles.

 

Out of curiosity.

 

'For Ss and Gs' seems to be a suitable safe substitute. That is of course, if people get the reference. I did

Best of luck, I look forward to hearing the outcome.

 

Gits and shiggles, ha ha!!!

 

I would like to know how well your docking station works too. I'll buy one if it work well for.

 

I planned on reporting back I certainly have a reason now, seeing how you guys are curious. Probably this weekend

 

Or perhaps now

I got my 4Tb Hard drive(WD40EZRX) and dock, only a short while ago. But, 3.63TB as the computer reports Naturally. I call her, Zolena. For now anyhow. I wanted it to have the path Z:\, in honor of my first 1TB drive. Z is difficult to choose for :S

So it would seem, that the Syba dock(SYBA CL-ENC50038), does indeed support beyond 3TB. I figured it would. But, some manufacturers have their proprietary firmware, proprietary software, etc, etc. BUT! It works Which means I can transfer some data to it, and tuck her away for safe keeping. Now, if they could just release a petabyte drive!!! Two of those, and I'd be set for a VERY Long time

I'll run some tests, when the long format completes. Yes, the long format... :S

The dock is supposed to simultaneously support two drives. I'll test that too. But I don't have the hardware to saturate USB 3.0