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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 ...
What a joke!
I've just managed to update one of my disks. Had to do it the mattseattle way, but a pc setup and open it up and pull out a sata cable from the writer.
It had an eSata port on the back of the machine, I thought that would do it. Connected my Icy box withe esata on it, up to the pc eSata port and nothing. How can that not work? Why wouldn't it find it that way?
Either way, I bit the bullet and opened the machine up, trying to not break the cleverly placed seal for warranty. Had the raving hump because I'd spent £10 on a poxy sata cable that was an external cable. That apparently I already had in the bottom of one of my boxes of wires. Not been using sata due to mac, so forgot I owned one. Must've come with the Icy box caddy.
And Maplin were shut as it was late, so I couldn't get an internal cable if I wanted to. All my cables weren't up to the job of an internal sata.
But upon opening the tower, I managed to rig the writers cable onto the hdd. There was just enough flex. And so managed to patch the 1st disk.
All that for about 3 second update. It actually took about 3/4 seconds. I had the right hump. The cost financially and stress involved, all for a poxy 4 second update.
Man, I feel like I've been done.
Put my disk back into the Duo, but it didn't seem to keep it's file system and the Duo is re-syncing it now. Another 12 hours.
At least I'll have the 2nd one done tomorrow.
Big thanks to mattseattle. You really helped me out with the details.
Just wished it hadn't cost me this much.
My Mums gonna kill me..........
I've just managed to update one of my disks. Had to do it the mattseattle way, but a pc setup and open it up and pull out a sata cable from the writer.
It had an eSata port on the back of the machine, I thought that would do it. Connected my Icy box withe esata on it, up to the pc eSata port and nothing. How can that not work? Why wouldn't it find it that way?
Either way, I bit the bullet and opened the machine up, trying to not break the cleverly placed seal for warranty. Had the raving hump because I'd spent £10 on a poxy sata cable that was an external cable. That apparently I already had in the bottom of one of my boxes of wires. Not been using sata due to mac, so forgot I owned one. Must've come with the Icy box caddy.
And Maplin were shut as it was late, so I couldn't get an internal cable if I wanted to. All my cables weren't up to the job of an internal sata.
But upon opening the tower, I managed to rig the writers cable onto the hdd. There was just enough flex. And so managed to patch the 1st disk.
All that for about 3 second update. It actually took about 3/4 seconds. I had the right hump. The cost financially and stress involved, all for a poxy 4 second update.
Man, I feel like I've been done.
Put my disk back into the Duo, but it didn't seem to keep it's file system and the Duo is re-syncing it now. Another 12 hours.
At least I'll have the 2nd one done tomorrow.
Big thanks to mattseattle. You really helped me out with the details.
Just wished it hadn't cost me this much.
My Mums gonna kill me..........
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