- 7200 RPM 64MB Cache
- SATA 6.0Gb/s
- For Daily Computing
Works with Windows 2003/WHS v1
03/25/2015
This review is from: Seagate BarraCuda STBD2000101 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Retail Packaging
Pros:
While an AF drive, the SmartAlign firmware did work just fine installed out of the box in a 512K sector based Windows Home Server V1 HP EX490 (which is really just Windows 2003 Server R2 under the covers). I bought four of these, three were made in China, one in Thailand. None of them had any bad sectors and all of them were plug and play.
Cons:
The SmartAlign firmware was not compatible with Paragon Alignment Tool 4. So you cannot even try to manually improve the sector alignment to 4K. This means living with some performance degradation due to firmware inefficiencies.
Overall Review:
The retail box has printed on the side that it includes a Seatools CD-ROM. But none of them included this. Memo to Seagate: update your printing text for the box.
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- Edward S.
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