Windows 10: Is 6TB enough to backup 6TB?

Discus and support Is 6TB enough to backup 6TB? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Hello. This may be a dumb question but... I have a 1TB SSD and 5TB hard drive in my desktop pc. I want to back up everything. All my data, all my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/wafflewrestler, Aug 27, 2020.

  1. /U/WAFFLEWRESTLER
    /u/wafflewrestler Win User

    Is 6TB enough to backup 6TB?


    Hello. This may be a dumb question but... I have a 1TB SSD and 5TB hard drive in my desktop pc. I want to back up everything. All my data, all my files, etc. I plan on running the backup nightly or at least a couple times per week. I'm looking at the WD black hard drive, but that only comes in 6TB maximum. I know 6TB doesn't equal exactly 6000GB, although i don't really understand the details of that... So the question is, will this 6TB internal drive be enough to backup EVERYTHING on both my 1TB SSD and my 5TB hard drive? Thanks!

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    /u/wafflewrestler, Aug 27, 2020
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  2. TOPGUNDCP
    topgundcp Win User

    How can I partition a 6TB HDD in Win 10?


    No need to use third party partition. Open Admin command prompt:
    1. Diskpart
    2. list disk
    3. ========>Take a note of disk numder for the 6TB drive
    4. select disk # ====> # from step 3
    5. Clean
    6. Exit
    7. Open disk management. A windows popup. Select GPT to initialize.
     
    topgundcp, Aug 27, 2020
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  3. PETRULA
    petrula Win User
    How Long to Full Format a 6TB Drive?

    I have two new drives formatting on separate computers.

    After 48 hours, they are both only 60% done which is why I want to hear from someone with experience formatting a 6TB drive.
     
    petrula, Aug 27, 2020
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  4. PETRULA
    petrula Win User

    Is 6TB enough to backup 6TB?

    How Long to Full Format a 6TB Drive?

    I finally found an answer to my original question.

    When HGST Technical Support was in San Jose, California, the engineers were extremely knowledgeable. Unfortunately, after Western Digital acquired HGST, HGST technical support was moved to the
    Dominican Republic. They seem unfamiliar with their hard drives. For example, I phoned about a HGST Deskstar NAS 6TB drive. The support person told me they did not have such a product. How can you not know about your own products.
    Ugh

    I then emailed asking, "Using the Windows 10 Disk Management snap-in with Full Format (Not Quick Format), how long does it take to format a HGST
    Deskstar NAS 6TB drive?" They replied to say a few hours. Obviously, a wrong answer.

    I phoned their competitor - Seagate. The Seagate engineer was located in California. He knew the answer immediately. He was very knowledgeable about this question and several others.

    Around 12 hours / 1 TB, so 6TB is ~72 hours (3 days)

    He also said that for their archive drives, Google does a Full Format for all their new hard drives. So even though the OS will auto mark bad sectors as it encounters errors, doing a Full Format is a more thorough verification according to Seagate.

    It turns out that the motherboard SATA port which I was using had a read/write hardware issue. This explains the reason for the slow formatting of my new drive as you originally suggested.

    Thank you for your help.
     
    petrula, Aug 27, 2020
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