I'm pretty sure that the Sammy uses advanced format, whereas this drive is standard. I got one of these a while back and got my rebate check. It's also very quiet. I use it in an external dock and I can barely hear it wind up.
If they were the same price, I don't know, but for $10 cheaper I'd definitely get this one.
Wow, and I paid $110 ea, for 8 drives at Microcenter (retail boxed) for the 7K2000 series 2TB drives, and when I opened them up, the drives inside were 7K3000 series.
Could have waited, and saved some bucks. Ah, well.
Very good. I totally forgot about that. They should really clarify exactly where to find the serial #- obviously no one is going to remove the label from the drive.I used the one on the bag.
There is no need to use AFT on any drive less than 2.19TB
Their spec sheet for this drive says 512B sectors - "variable"
So I called up Hitachi and spent about half hour on phone being shuffled around, and no one at US HQ could answer my question of "how does variable sectors function in actual use"?
"does a 2TB drive have 512B/sector and a 3TB drive have 4096B/sector emulated to 512B, or does each drive change the sector allocation on-the-fly as some implementation of Long LBA"?
And since Hitachi Storage is gone, this question has no relevance anymore.