Avolusion PRO-5X Series 18TB USB 3 0 External Hard Drive for WindowsOS Desktop PC Laptop White Renewed

Works well & holds a lot of storage data. Looks sleek in design style. Transfers easily files, video, etc. Read more

This was a gift for my son who does streaming. He needed the extra storage space for videos he was editing. He loves it! Read more

The box this unit comes in is labeled “game drive”. The paper user manual that comes with it refers to this product as “Avolusion Pro 5X External Gaming Storage”. I don’t game and have no idea why a gamer requires an external hard drive. So, as I unpackaged it, I was thinking “Am I going to have to send this back?” I re-read the Amazon page and the title/description says nothing about this being a gaming drive. The last photo on the Amazon page does show the box but I did not notice the “game drive” when I made my purchase. Now, two weeks after opening the box and deciding to keep it, I have found it to be a good external hard drive for use as a Win 11 backup. I currently have it loaded up with 2.59TB of family photos and videos from the last four decades. It is working great. It came formatted as NTFS and I have not attempted to reformat it. The “properties” shows its available storage space to be 16.3TB. This is a great value for the price. Read more

Holds 16.3TB usable storage Read more

Product stopped working after we loaded our information onto it. The power came on, but no laptop could read the drive. Even took it to BBGS to see if they could help. The couldn't read the drive either. So now I have an item that has information on it, that I have to return to get back my $209.46. Guess what Amazon CS wanted to offer me a $10 or their max offer of $50.00 credit on my account - WTF!!!! Seriously, on a $210 item. I guess they think we are made of $$$$. DON"T BUT THIS ITEM AND DON'T TRUST ACC to help you. Read more

NOTE: I haven't actually purchased this item. I came across this item while shopping for external hard drives in the 20TB range and while reading reviews, saw one that was quite perturbed as to why they only got 16TB when they paid for an 18TB external hard drive. This is a very common complaint/question and understandably so, but it's not a case of false advertising or deception, not in the traditional sense anyway. It comes down to the difference between how computers measure data and common parlance. Basically, advertised vs. actual. Computers are complex machines, but for all their complexity, the language they speak is actually refreshingly simple. It's called binary and the entire language consists is a shipping 2 characters, ones and zeros. Since computers look at everything as either a 1 or a 0 or combination thereof, it stands to reason that it would also define data this way. That is, using base-2 prefixes, i.e., 2 to the 10th power increments. Long story short, the actual number of bytes that make up, e.g., a kilobyte (or megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, etc) is not a nice and even 1,000 but rather 1,024. This doesn't jive well with people and the way our brains handle numbers (power of 10), so a "people friendly" unit of data measurement was born. One where "kilo" DOES equal 1,000 EVEN, with a "people-friendly" data storage prefix for every computer/binary-oriented prefix. Unfortunately, despite perfectly defined terms for each where previously there were none, confusing matters is that many people, manufacturers and written/online sources, etc. very often fail to differentiate as they should, and they absolutely should, as it's been the technically correct way to refer to data storage measurement since December of 1998, when the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) came up with binary prefix units of measure to distinguish/differentiate from the pre-existing decimal units of measure (metric) prefixes. Up until then (and though incorrect, frequently still to this day), a kilobyte was either 1,000 or 1,024 bytes and all you'd have to go on was context clues to have an idea of which it was. Now (since '98), a kilobyte (abbreviated as kB) equals 1,000 bytes - no more, no less - and the base-2/binary equivalent is called a kibibyte (KiB), equaling exactly 1,024 bytes. Also introduced were binary prefix equivalent for the megabyte (MB / 1,000 kB); called a mebibyte (MiB / 1,024 KiB), gigabyte (GB / 1,000MB - this is the one that most people notice and take exception to); called a gibibyte (GiB / 1,024MiB, terabyte (TB / 1,000 GB); called a tebibyte (TiB / 1,024 GiB) and so on... So, now you know WHY the discrepancy exists. But IMO, the more important question (which I'll pose but not attempt to answer) is: why was this done in the first place?? If we had defined data in accordance with the way computers define data, which is where data is relevant in first place, a discrepancy between binary prefixes and metric/decimal prefixes would be irrelevant, as there'd be no discrepancy if that's all we knew out of the gate. Worth noting is that there are a couple of other reasons why there might be a difference between advertised and actual data storage amounts, such as formatting but the overwhelming majority of the time, any non-negligible difference in actual vs. advertised will come from whether you're a human or at least someone who uses human friendly numbers, or you're a computer and/or someone who speaks binary. Keep this in mind any time you're shopping for data storage devices/a new PC/laptop, or ANYTHING with data storage space. Also, despite rampant incorrect usage of the respective prefixes, for the most part manufacturers have gotten good at using the correct abbreviations, so just know that if you see KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB, that A) it's different from kB, MB, GB, TB and B) it's a little bit larger than the close but not quite the same kilo/mega/giga/tera-byte equivalents. Believe it or not, this is actually the abbreviated version. I didn't even touch the self-serving manufacturer side or the legal battles that have raged on since the 90s to present day where they fight tooth and nail for the right to continue using these misleading methods of advertising data storage. Either way, sorry for the novel, but considering how monumentally important computing is to modern life, it's high time that this became common knowledge and that "common parlance" gave way to "reality" Read more

I buy an 18 gig HD only good for 16 gig. Buy a 16 it's good for 14. Keep doing that. Happens with EVERY drive available. All brands. No exceptions. Why advertise 18 gig when it's not possible? Maybe Linux can use it all. Haven't tested that yet. Other than that the drives are GREAT! Got to block the bright light though. Read more

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