On 2012-06-18 16:24, Michael Mol wrote:

> http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/
> 
> "Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache
> 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive"

Hm... then Seagate needs to update their product page:
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/barracuda/#

No 4TB in sight... oh, well. Or maybe it's one of those magical drives
I've read about[1]... ;-)

> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in
> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would
> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any
> analogous steps for the 4TB drives?

That would be a possibility of course... but if that fails he also have
this option:
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm
(I'm sure there are similar options from other manufacturers)...

[1]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/170235/magical-chinese-hard-drive

Best regards

Peter K

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