- 5400 RPM 32MB Cache
- SATA 6.0Gb/s
- 3 years limited
you may not want this drive
05/13/2011
This review is from: Hitachi GST Deskstar 0S03230 3TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Pros:
I just received and attempted to use this drive. The drive works as expected but only formats to 2TB for me. This is due to the fact that not all my components are at whatever level Hitachi is expecting. I was trying this on a windows Enterprise 64 bit system, rather new (2011). I noticed a utility for XP to format the drive to use 4K sectors so XP could see all 3TB. But they seem to have written this utility for either a very specific drive pr a drive in one of their enclosures. I did try putting the drive into a USB to SATA as the utility expected but no joy. I know Seagate has a utility to do this maybe I should have gone that route. No complains about NewEgg just a caution to others.
Cons:
Will not work with most systems.
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- Carl S.
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