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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 ...
Hi,
Just bought 4 x 2TB HD204UI Drives for my ReadyNAS NV+. Patched the firmware on all 4 disks, installed them on the readynas and did a factory reset.
Then I choose FlexRaid (Not X-Raid) to make two Striped 4TB Volumes. One as my working volume, one as a backup and I use the TimeMachine to make a backup from Volume 1 to Volume 2 once a week.
But before upgrading to the Samsung Drives I had two Seagate 500GB Drives installed and Performance was ok. But with the new Samsung Drives it feels like their performance is very very bad. I already looked at the partition.log but the partition start numbers are divible by 8 and first partition starts at 32 so they are aligned to 4K sectors.
I already enabled all the possible options which improve performance in the "performance settings" in raidiator.
Does anybody have a good benchmark I can run from my workstation to see the performance and how do the others feel about the speed of the HD204UI???
I'm very disappointed at the moment as I read in this forum that the disks are working well (apart from the firmware issue). But to me they seem so slow.... :-(
Does anybody have tips for improvements because the old 500GB Drives were much faster...
Thanks for any hints and tricks.
Just bought 4 x 2TB HD204UI Drives for my ReadyNAS NV+. Patched the firmware on all 4 disks, installed them on the readynas and did a factory reset.
Then I choose FlexRaid (Not X-Raid) to make two Striped 4TB Volumes. One as my working volume, one as a backup and I use the TimeMachine to make a backup from Volume 1 to Volume 2 once a week.
But before upgrading to the Samsung Drives I had two Seagate 500GB Drives installed and Performance was ok. But with the new Samsung Drives it feels like their performance is very very bad. I already looked at the partition.log but the partition start numbers are divible by 8 and first partition starts at 32 so they are aligned to 4K sectors.
I already enabled all the possible options which improve performance in the "performance settings" in raidiator.
Does anybody have a good benchmark I can run from my workstation to see the performance and how do the others feel about the speed of the HD204UI???
I'm very disappointed at the moment as I read in this forum that the disks are working well (apart from the firmware issue). But to me they seem so slow.... :-(
Does anybody have tips for improvements because the old 500GB Drives were much faster...
Thanks for any hints and tricks.
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