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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 ...
mattseattle
Dec 10, 2010Aspirant
airs wrote: Not sure if you'll be able to detect a file error that way. An MD5 comparison will tell you for sure though!
I downloaded the MD5 app for the Mac OS this morning. I just ran several tests of copying video and music files back and forth. While the copying was happening I loaded the SMART data for 4 of the Samsung drives happening. On other tests I did a combination of that as well as loading the iphone app that queries the SMART data as well. After doing an MD5 comparison it showed that all the files were identical in checksums.
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