Question 1

What comes in the retail box?

Accepted Answer

4 mounting screws and the hard drive

Question 2

Are you sure it's 32M cache? 
In the "Specification", it says 64M cache.

Accepted Answer

easily available info......do your own research.

Question 3

If I'm not mistaken, most Z97 and X99 motherboards can and will accept anything larger than 2TB, correct?  I think I saw that most use either DualBIOS or UEFI now, which will natively support these.  I just needed some clarification on this.  I'm planning on using this in a MSI Z97-Gaming 7 Mobo, and need that assurance this will be accepted.

Accepted Answer

The motherboard/BIOS will have no problems with this drive whatsoever.

Assuming you are running Windows XP 64 bit (NOT 32 bit), or any flavor of Windows Vista, 7 or 8 the Operating System will natively work with a drive of this size.

Mac OS 10.6 or later will support this drive.

If you are using Linux, a kernel version 2.6.x and later (32-bit CPU limit of logical volume size limit is 16TB, 64-bit CPI limit is 8EB) is needed. The kernel must be compiled with CONFIG_LBD enabled, which is typically the default setting. Also, GUID Partition Tables are required.

Question 4

your model WDBSLA0040HNC-NRSN

others model WDBSLA0040HNC-N

what does RSN mean?  thanks

Accepted Answer

NRSN is a model number suffix (characters to the right of the dash 
following the model number) is only for in-house use. So unless you know someone that works at Western Digital, not really sure how you would get the answer to this question. If you need to know what any of the other model numbers refer to then you can google the following as i can't add a link.  Model Numbers - WD Internal Drives

Question 5

Is this drive compatible with a sony vaio VGC-JS160J PC?

Accepted Answer

I don't know for sure but some older PC's only except up to 2TB Drives.

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