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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 ...
I didn't understand his post as well until I went to the website he posted. I don't know what effect this would have on our ReadyNAS though.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartm ... GBadBlocks
The issue is described as:
* Problem: If the system writes to this disk and smartctl -a (5.40) is used at the same time, write errors are reported and bad blocks appear on the disk.
and here is a little more info on it:
This was reported by a reader and could be reproduced in c't magazine lab on the following system:
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Core i3-560
Intel H55 chipset
SATA-AHCI-Driver: Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 9.6
* It could also be reproduced under Linux (Fedora 14) if AHCI is enabled and the following commands are run in parallel:
# badblocks -svw -b 4096 /dev/sdd 4000000
# smartctl -a /dev/sdd
* It could not be reproduced if the Intel H55 chipset is set to IDE mode.
* It could also be reproduced on another system with an AMD chipset under Windows and drivers msahci.sys or amdsata.sys.
* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys driver with the following other disks:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartm ... GBadBlocks
The issue is described as:
* Problem: If the system writes to this disk and smartctl -a (5.40) is used at the same time, write errors are reported and bad blocks appear on the disk.
and here is a little more info on it:
This was reported by a reader and could be reproduced in c't magazine lab on the following system:
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Core i3-560
Intel H55 chipset
SATA-AHCI-Driver: Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 9.6
* It could also be reproduced under Linux (Fedora 14) if AHCI is enabled and the following commands are run in parallel:
# badblocks -svw -b 4096 /dev/sdd 4000000
# smartctl -a /dev/sdd
* It could not be reproduced if the Intel H55 chipset is set to IDE mode.
* It could also be reproduced on another system with an AMD chipset under Windows and drivers msahci.sys or amdsata.sys.
* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys driver with the following other disks:
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