On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:27:27 GMT, 7
 wrote:

>I bought the 750Gb version just before the price tumbled on the 1Tb.
>That drive is super silent with its fluid bearings and the 32Mb cache
>makes all the difference for horrendously fast I/O.
>Will definitely buy one if not two in the near future.


Thanks

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from Geoff <No-one@nowhere.notime> contains these words:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:27:27 GMT, 7
>  wrote:

> >I bought the 750Gb version just before the price tumbled on the 1Tb.
> >That drive is super silent with its fluid bearings and the 32Mb cache
> >makes all the difference for horrendously fast I/O.
> >Will definitely buy one if not two in the near future.

 If you're using a via 8237 raid controller (southbridge), even _after_
using Samsung's elusive patch to downgrade the drives to 1.5Gbps, they
may _still_ not be detected by the bios.

 I had no trouble with an intel chipset skt478 board (Asrock P4i65G)
cloning the old WD320GB to the HD103UJ using the G4UE cloning tool
(straight disk to disk, followed by a PM8 session to extend the NTFS
partition out to the limit), but when it came to attaching to the Jetway
V600DAP MoBo (the one with the VT8237 south bridge chip), nada.

 I thought the problem was simply the 1.5/3.0 Gbps speed issue but
applying Samsung's patch made no difference whatsover. Googling for
possible solutions or the reason for this problem failed to turn
anything up. I couldn't even find anything that might have at least
indicated whether it was a capacity limitation of the VT8237 chip.

 Via keep banging on about how much better than the Promise controller
it is regarding sdtr, but not one word about drive size limits. Unless
there's something bogus about Samsung's 1.5gbps patcher or the 1.5gbps
mode used by the HD103UJ, I can only assume there's some weird capacity
limitation in the VT8237 raid controller.

 Apparently, it's not just VIA raid controllers that have problems with
3gbps sata drives, so be warned.

-- 
Regards, John.

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