Recent content by mariolana

Okay, I'll ignore the 32-bit thing. But dummy value or whatever, it's a bit confusing when one sees that in the output of HWInfo32. Why does it have to show at all?

That would have been my assumption, too. So why is HWInfo32 saying that my new 2TB SMR drive has 268435455 32-bit LBA Sectors, and 3907029168 48-bit LBA Sectors? Either this data is correct, which begs some questions about the design of the HD, or it is not, in which case it begs some...

I bought a new Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102. After formatting, used PC-3000, HDDScan, and HDTune to check the drive, and fould portions where the scan speed fluctuated wildly, although no dud sectors. Moreover, the parts of the drive where this happens seem to move around a bit on successive...