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    Anyone using ST4000VN000 ?

    I have just bought five of these drives and am currently showing 7, 14, 14, 21, 64 high fly errors. The rest of the SMART attributes are fine. I am thinking that perhaps this is vibration related. It is (hopefully) unlikely that I have five broken drives!
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Thanks, that makes sense now you have explained it. This unfortunately mean that the mismatches I thought mdadm had fixed on my RAID 5 array may well not have been properly corrected. At least the vast majority of my data on the array is multimedia where it isn't fatal if there is an odd error.
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Interesting to know. Are you sure that it isn't possible to repair a RAID5 as surely the parity information allows the correct data to be reconstructed?
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Did you run a parity check / repair on all the drives before pulling one? If you have errors which arose before you patched the firmware when you pull a drive there won't be any parity information to correct any errors. On the basis that there have been extensive tests on the new firmware...
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    No as the bug just caused data not to be written in certain cases. It does not cause bad sectors.
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    I suspect that most SMART software would issue the identify command. Unless you are using the drives in a configuration where parity / checksum info is saved, such as a RAID5 array or certain filing systems you can't tell if any data is corrupted. Well not unless you have another copy...
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Well per the manual for your board it is under Chipset / Southbridge Configuration/ On Board SATA Type
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    I assume you can do some sort of resync operation on FlexRAID which hopefully will fix any errors. I did a scan of my mdadm array last night and it found 256 mismatches. I am planning on running a repair operation later.
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    That is an update for a different drive (Model : F4EG HD204UI/JP1, HD204UI/JP2).
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    The firmware update does not change the version number. Were your drives version 10003 before you ran the update?
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Yes the flash utility did upgrade all 4 of my drives at the same time.
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Well to answer my own post Samsung have just renamed the file. The one I downloaded yesterday was named 813811HD204UI.EXE and the new one HD204UI.EXE. Both files are identical.
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    Thanks. My last post wasn't clear. I have a software RAID using mdadm and I'm not using a RAID controller so all drives are connected directly to the motherboard controller. I was just hoping the firmware would update all drives at the same time and I wouldn't have to power the computer on...
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    Samsung 2TB green drives defective firmware?

    I noticed this thread last night and am going to update my drives later. I think the firmware file has been updated since I checked last night, although it could have just been renamed. I have four of these drives in a RAID array. Does anyone know if the firmware on all the drives will be...
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