Just a quick one to be aware of.
For those of you who are going to use newish SAMSUNG HD204UI (2TB F4 EcoGreen 5400rpm) drives in a system, please be aware that you will probably need to patch the firmware on them.
This is due to a bug where if any software uses "IDENTIFY DEVICE" and you are also writing to the drive a bad block is generated.
See http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks and http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386 for more details.
For those of you who are going to use newish SAMSUNG HD204UI (2TB F4 EcoGreen 5400rpm) drives in a system, please be aware that you will probably need to patch the firmware on them.
This is due to a bug where if any software uses "IDENTIFY DEVICE" and you are also writing to the drive a bad block is generated.
See http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks and http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386 for more details.
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