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Fallon
Oct 15, 2010Aspirant
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 ...
airs
Dec 09, 2010Aspirant
Matt, the page I linked does mention this:
Btw, I'm in Seattle too, hi! :)
The above suggests that the disk sometimes discards a pending 64 sector write command when a IDENTIFY DEVICE command is received. This data loss occurs silently. There is no error message in kernel log, SMART Error log, NCQ Command Error log page, or SATA Phy Event Counters log page.
Please note that the badblocks command reported "256 bad blocks" in the above test because the data read differs from the data written before. None of the tests resulted in actual bad (unreadable) blocks on the disk. Testing did not damage the disk itself. The problem is that new data already sent to the disk may not be written. Previously written data is not affected.
Btw, I'm in Seattle too, hi! :)
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