I'm surprised I haven't seen a thread about this already on [H] but since I had a coupon I decided to grab one of the 3TB 7K3000 (7200RPM) drives for compatibility testing. I would assume all of this data would be equally applicable to the 3TB 5K3000 (5400RPM) drive.
According to my Areca card, the vital stats of the drive:
Model Name Hitachi HDS723030ALA640
Firmware Rev. MKAOA3B0
Disk Capacity 3000.6GB
Test #1: Intel ICH10R on ASUS P6T Deluxe
Driver: Intel RST 9.6.0.1014 (apparently the latest version BSODs the P6T Deluxe)
Results: Semi-compatible. Detects incorrectly as 801gB in some software, however shows the full 3TB in Disk Management. Disk appears to have problems with power management, randomly spins down and up, causing the system to freeze and lock up temporarily.
As you can see, erroneously shows up as 801gB
Test #2: Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller on ASUS Combo SATA6/USB3 PCIe 4x card
Driver: Marvell 1.0.0.1045
Results: Fully compatible. However, appears to be capped by some bandwidth limit at about 107MB/s, might be the result of the bridge chip on the ASUS card.
Test #3: Highpoint Rocketraid 4320 PCIe 8x raid card
Driver: Highpoint 1.2.28.28
Firmware: v1.2.26.5
Results: Incompatible. Erroneously listed as 21334.37 TB. Shows up as negative gigabytes in Disk Management and unable to use.
Test #4: Areca 1231ML PCIe 8x raid card
Driver: 6.20.0.21
Firmware: V1.49 2010-12-02 (not available on website, but available by FTP)
Results: Fully compatible.
As for the drive itself, I've no complaints about the speed, but as far as acoustics it does make a constant noticeable spinning noise; however I would suspect that putting it inside a case or enclosure would help with this issue. Perhaps the 5400RPM version would be a lot quieter.
If anyone wants to add additional compatibility datapoints or different experiences please feel free to add to this thread. Thanks.
According to my Areca card, the vital stats of the drive:
Model Name Hitachi HDS723030ALA640
Firmware Rev. MKAOA3B0
Disk Capacity 3000.6GB
Test #1: Intel ICH10R on ASUS P6T Deluxe
Driver: Intel RST 9.6.0.1014 (apparently the latest version BSODs the P6T Deluxe)
Results: Semi-compatible. Detects incorrectly as 801gB in some software, however shows the full 3TB in Disk Management. Disk appears to have problems with power management, randomly spins down and up, causing the system to freeze and lock up temporarily.
As you can see, erroneously shows up as 801gB
Test #2: Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller on ASUS Combo SATA6/USB3 PCIe 4x card
Driver: Marvell 1.0.0.1045
Results: Fully compatible. However, appears to be capped by some bandwidth limit at about 107MB/s, might be the result of the bridge chip on the ASUS card.
Test #3: Highpoint Rocketraid 4320 PCIe 8x raid card
Driver: Highpoint 1.2.28.28
Firmware: v1.2.26.5
Results: Incompatible. Erroneously listed as 21334.37 TB. Shows up as negative gigabytes in Disk Management and unable to use.
Test #4: Areca 1231ML PCIe 8x raid card
Driver: 6.20.0.21
Firmware: V1.49 2010-12-02 (not available on website, but available by FTP)
Results: Fully compatible.
As for the drive itself, I've no complaints about the speed, but as far as acoustics it does make a constant noticeable spinning noise; however I would suspect that putting it inside a case or enclosure would help with this issue. Perhaps the 5400RPM version would be a lot quieter.
If anyone wants to add additional compatibility datapoints or different experiences please feel free to add to this thread. Thanks.