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Fallon
Aspirant
Oct 15, 2010

Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM working good so far

There was a recent deal at NewEgg on the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM 32MB drives, so I decided to risk it as opposed to the other WD & Seagate 2tb drives. I installed them, upgraded the ...
Hard Disk
Samsung
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 04, 2010
Wracky wrote:


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1              32     4096031     2048000   fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc2         4096032     5144607      524288   fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc3         5144608  3907012815  1950934104   fd  Linux raid autodetect


That's fine. You can see the start numbers are divisible by 8 and the first one is 32, which is what you expect to see with 4k sector alignment on Sparc ReadyNAS. Remember 512 bytes * 8 = 4k

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