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WD20EARS just added on the official HCL - mistake and issues
The official HCL has (quietly !) been updated for Sparc based machines with a 2TB WD desktop class drive: the WD20EARS (http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82). This is in principle good news as the WD20...
Hey, thanks a lot for your kind response! :D
My new, but rather small laptop doesn't provide an eSATA port.
One of my two drives I believe to be bad since the very beginning (post). So, today I sent them back to the retailer and hoping to be able to switch to non-4K drives. I'm not an expert on the hardware level. Reading all about the 4K drives vs 512b drives, having to use a tool like WDIDLE and so on, it makes me wonder if I want to spend all that time (which none of us have).. I'm hoping that the others drives will fit in, and all goes well. :D
My new, but rather small laptop doesn't provide an eSATA port.
One of my two drives I believe to be bad since the very beginning (post). So, today I sent them back to the retailer and hoping to be able to switch to non-4K drives. I'm not an expert on the hardware level. Reading all about the 4K drives vs 512b drives, having to use a tool like WDIDLE and so on, it makes me wonder if I want to spend all that time (which none of us have).. I'm hoping that the others drives will fit in, and all goes well. :D
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