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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 ...
First post...hi :)
Last night while installing three HD204UI into my new diskless ultra 4, I came across this information:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
Note this part before freaking...
The problem could not be reproduced with the above test if any of the following conditions are met:
* Disk write cache is disabled.
* NCQ is disabled. This may not always be true as the c't lab also reported problems with NCQ disabled.
* A modified test version of smartctl which does not issue IDENTIFY DEVICE commands is used. Then all other SMART and non-SMART commands used by smartctl work without any data loss.
* The disk is replaced by another model (tested with Samsung HE103UJ and Seagate ST31000524NS).
So before writing any data, I turned off write caching. Everything is going well afaik and I'm seeing about 55mb/s write speed...thoughts? Hopefully Samsung's fix will come soon...
Last night while installing three HD204UI into my new diskless ultra 4, I came across this information:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
Note this part before freaking...
The problem could not be reproduced with the above test if any of the following conditions are met:
* Disk write cache is disabled.
* NCQ is disabled. This may not always be true as the c't lab also reported problems with NCQ disabled.
* A modified test version of smartctl which does not issue IDENTIFY DEVICE commands is used. Then all other SMART and non-SMART commands used by smartctl work without any data loss.
* The disk is replaced by another model (tested with Samsung HE103UJ and Seagate ST31000524NS).
So before writing any data, I turned off write caching. Everything is going well afaik and I'm seeing about 55mb/s write speed...thoughts? Hopefully Samsung's fix will come soon...
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