Which 2TB drive for WHS?

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I was looking at the sumsung, F4's but now I'm reading they are advanced format drives.

So what drives that are 2TB will work with WHS? I'm out of space so adding more TB drives is out of the question.
 
i have 1 samsung f4 now as a pool drive in my whs. I updated the fw and its fine. Lots of others are using them also in whs on this forums.
 
fireburster said:
i have 1 samsung f4 now as a pool drive in my whs. I updated the fw and its fine. Lots of others are using them also in whs on this forums.
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Yes, but according to newegg reviewers the new ones are extended format, where as the older F4 were not. Won't this cause problems or is your extended format as well?
 
Advanced format drives work fine. WD EARS drives just require a simple jumper and drop in the same as EADS.
 
The 2tb F4's have always been afd. Then only 2TB drives you're going to find that aren't are the WD Black and older EADS.
 
Yea so this Samsung drive isn't working out so well. The alignment tool is not giving me the option to change its alignment. I had to patch (not update the firmware) and I have already spent more time trying to get this drive to work than it is worth.

I dunno how some people claim to have these working properly in WHS, I'm sure mine would stutter and skip just like the crappy old WD drives caused it to do. but this time only because the partitions will not be aligned properly and Samsugns tool is a big POS.
 
You should still be able to get some F3EG 2TB drives, but I would not recommend them over the F4 series. They are hotter and louder.
 
So, jumpering the WD20EARS will add itself to Whs pool without any issues, causing conflicts, data loss, e.t.c.? Or we simply don't know and we guess that eventually will work.
What is Western Digital official statement on the subject?
You simply add the jumper according to their instructions before you add it to the pool, so the drive has already been formatted to a, let's say, a Win7 machine, like mine?
 
On the other hand, it's a bit difficult nowadays to find a WD20EADS at least here in Athens, Greece, and I am not buying hard drives from somewhere far away, in case sth goes wrong.
The only 2tb hdd that I currently run in my rig, is a WD20EVDS, I still don't know if it was a wise move.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Andreas
 
You guys should not use the jumper, ever! Instead align your partition probably; like using MagicParted to create the partitions without having the jumper set. That should work.

You guys running Windows would also want 4 KiB sectors, since otherwise you would have a too high risk of amnesia; the 512-byte sector HDD losing different sectors because the ECC can't correct anymore. Especially 2TB 512-byte sector HDDs would not be a good choice, since without any protection from Windows or NTFS, any sector your HDD loses could be fatal, such as lost NTFS metadata. I wouldn't assume my data is safe when stored in such a condition.

Since WHS has no protection against BER, the 4KiB sectors would surely be an advantage.
 
The Samsung tool said mine weren't AF drives either. Blah, everyone on the other WHS forums are putting them in as in.

I've been up for 2 weeks now and I have 4 full. No problems what so ever, even when seeding, and watching movies in 2 different rooms.
 
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