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| From: | pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations | ||
| Date: | Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:50:22 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4FDF3FA9.8030205@coolmail.se | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations by Michael Mol |
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| 1 | On 2012-06-18 16:24, Michael Mol wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/ |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > "Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache |
| 6 | > 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive" |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Hm... then Seagate needs to update their product page: |
| 9 | http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/barracuda/# |
| 10 | |
| 11 | No 4TB in sight... oh, well. Or maybe it's one of those magical drives |
| 12 | I've read about[1]... ;-) |
| 13 | |
| 14 | > It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in |
| 15 | > a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would |
| 16 | > operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any |
| 17 | > analogous steps for the 4TB drives? |
| 18 | |
| 19 | That would be a possibility of course... but if that fails he also have |
| 20 | this option: |
| 21 | http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm |
| 22 | (I'm sure there are similar options from other manufacturers)... |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [1] |
| 25 | http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/170235/magical-chinese-hard-drive |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Best regards |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Peter K |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations | felix@×××××××.com |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations | Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> |