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jeffhayes
Jan 03, 2011Aspirant
ST2000DL003 Compatibility?
Being a RNP user that is running out of space, I'm wanting to purchase new drives. I'm interested in using the Seagate ST2000DL003 2TB drives. These drives are not currently listed on the compatib...
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 05, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
sjw wrote:
I could be totally wrong but what does the 'Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes' bit mean? Is that not where you would now see 4k?
No. It means that the utility is measuring using units of 512 byte sectors. You can see that the start sectors are divisible by 8 (remember 4096 [4k] / 8 = 512), so the partitions are aligned for 4k sectors.
sjw wrote:
Also, In My Computer on W7, the drive of the NAS (mapped to NAS 'c') says Filesystem - NTFS. That can't be right can it?
That is weird. I don't use Win7 so not sure what's going on there. Maybe samba tricks the PC into thinking it's working with a NTFS drive?
sjw wrote:
What's with the head flying hours there?
Ignore that. It's supposed to have a huge figure.
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