2011-02-17, 05:46
Superorb Wrote:I have an F4 2TB and an F2EG 1.5TB drive. The F4 has been solid and smoking fast even though it's still unpatched. The F2 has been similar, but just today I noticed SMART is reporting 1 pending write sector, and it's been like that since I checked hours ago. No idea what that means though as there are 0 reallocated sectors.
I didn't know about the new Firmware for these drives before, so I will get another (I gave away the first I had) just to try it out. As my current rate I need to add about 6TBs to my array this year, and I would like those to be a finally working Seagate 5900RPM drive, the aforementioned Samsung F4, and a WD EADS before they completely disappear.
Quote:+1. I'm hoping the Hitachi drives will prove to be good, but it took months before we found out about the F4 corruption issue.
So far according to my first run benchmarks its faster than any other "Green" drive I have, and it is not far behind its 7200RPM counterpart. Looks like a really good drive, lets see if it doesn't get SMART with me in the next few months...