Hello Community,
I hope there are some people who have experience with the 4K native HDD topic.
Recently I ordered two of these because of a good price I got at a webshop during a promotion:
http://www.seagate.com/enterprise-storage/hard-disk-drives/enterprise-capacity-3-5-hdd/
I completely ignored the 512n / 512e / 4kn model differences and just went for the at that time cheapest/best available offer which was a 4kn drive.
Now the drives have been delivered today and I was telling a friend I would be extending my local storage a bit
Showed him a link to the drive and he said if I am sure that my PC is compatible with these.
Doing some research the software prerequisite for 4k native with Windows 10 or Linux 2.xxxx (dont remember exactly) are no problem from my end.
Now what I just can't seem to find are reliable sources that can tell me if the drive will be recognized by my Z97 MSI Gaming 5 mainboard ... if I plug it in normally as a SATA device.
I planned on running in RAID mode but it seems RAID with 4kn doesn't work:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/technologies/000005646.html
So now I am really curious and also anxious because can I plug this in and at least run these drives in AHCI mode with my board? I literally can't find anything about hardware prerequisites for a native 4K drive.
On the other hand my feeling says they should work at least in non-RAID mode... otherwise there would be plenty of people complaining of mis-purchasing these.
Any help appreciated because I don't wanna unseal a drive (2 drives) that just won't work at all.
Maybe there is someone who handled these drives before on here ?
Thanks in advance,
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I hope there are some people who have experience with the 4K native HDD topic.
Recently I ordered two of these because of a good price I got at a webshop during a promotion:
http://www.seagate.com/enterprise-storage/hard-disk-drives/enterprise-capacity-3-5-hdd/
I completely ignored the 512n / 512e / 4kn model differences and just went for the at that time cheapest/best available offer which was a 4kn drive.
Now the drives have been delivered today and I was telling a friend I would be extending my local storage a bit
Showed him a link to the drive and he said if I am sure that my PC is compatible with these.
Doing some research the software prerequisite for 4k native with Windows 10 or Linux 2.xxxx (dont remember exactly) are no problem from my end.
Now what I just can't seem to find are reliable sources that can tell me if the drive will be recognized by my Z97 MSI Gaming 5 mainboard ... if I plug it in normally as a SATA device.
I planned on running in RAID mode but it seems RAID with 4kn doesn't work:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/technologies/000005646.html
So now I am really curious and also anxious because can I plug this in and at least run these drives in AHCI mode with my board? I literally can't find anything about hardware prerequisites for a native 4K drive.
On the other hand my feeling says they should work at least in non-RAID mode... otherwise there would be plenty of people complaining of mis-purchasing these.
Any help appreciated because I don't wanna unseal a drive (2 drives) that just won't work at all.
Maybe there is someone who handled these drives before on here ?
Thanks in advance,
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