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Title: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: Bun-Bun on February 12, 2011, 08:21:58 AM

Got a steal on these drives.

Now I read problems with 4kb formatting and 512b emulation.

At this time all the articles I find are with the WD drives... does this same problem exist with this Seagate drive?

I have quickly looked through some guides and from my understanding it is a simple matter of getting fun_plug up, and through various steps aligning the partitions manually to the 4kb formatting? Question is... is this required with my Seagate drive and its 512b emulation?

Thanks =D

Title: Re: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: pearljam45 on February 12, 2011, 10:55:45 AM

Unfortunately, the problem should apply to any brand of advanced format drive.

Title: Re: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: Bun-Bun on February 12, 2011, 03:39:45 PM

What exactly is the problem with the 512b emulation? I just copied a video and it avg 11mb/s write and 19mb/s read which is better then what I was getting with my two 1TB drives in there...

Title: Re: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: Lighting Guy on February 12, 2011, 05:45:51 PM

Someone else with a little more experience in the topic can reply/correct me, but I think it will appear to work fine for a while, but as you load the HDD with more stuff, it will eventually drastically degrade the performance.  I think I remember reading with the WD EARS drives there was software to align it, and then maybe it would be fine after that...?  I dunno, I returned my EARS drive after I read about them not working well, even before I opened the static bag.  Hopefully this helped, but someone else can chime in with more technical reasons.

Title: Re: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: pearljam45 on February 13, 2011, 09:26:48 PM

Lightning guy, I've read the same thing.

Slowly drive will lose performance and eventually will degrade until files disappear.
I also read that alignment especially when used with jumper on 7/8 is a poor fix and unreliable.

In my own experience, I had two files disappear (large video files) with my EARS at around 80% full.

PJ

Title: Re: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: Bun-Bun on February 14, 2011, 12:48:58 PM

Are you saying that even manually aligning the partitions you will still have issues?

I am having issues getting the drives aligned and staying in Raid... I reboot and I have two seperate volumes...

Title: Re: DNS-323 & Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003
Post by: Bun-Bun on February 16, 2011, 11:05:48 PM

I have been reading into seagates smart allign technology and it is supposed to auto correct for the problems seen with WD and other 4k sector drives. That is you dont need any sort of utility to allign the partitions for use with XP or anything like that.

So it should work fine with the DNS-323... theoretically...

Anyway someone suggests I test this?