edit: what is the resource monitor say for boot "disk que length"? I can't see what's on the resource monitor, because when I run it only the current background (I mean whatever is under the resource monitor window at the moment) is displayed in it (I know it is weird). Also disk LED blinks every s...

Tried plugging it into a different USB port. The mouse is clean. Setpoint was the newest.

If setpoint works differently regarding hardware between windows versions, you should change your mousepad, test it with a white paper. Errattic mouse movement can be caused by unsuited mousepads. It is perhaps slightly better on white paper, but just slightly. I uninstalled setpoint yesterday, and...

I miss the mouse pointer movement from Windows XP. Is there any way to 'import' the way the mouse was behaving in Windows XP 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit? In Windows XP with the Enhance pointer precision turned on the mouse moved as it should, i.e. quite smoothly all the time and with good precision. ...

There are two Samsung 2TB HD204UI bought together (their S/N is different just by one digit at the end, so they had to be next to each other on the assembly line), but they behave very differently in tests, as you can see here: http://forum.hddguru.com/samsung-2tb-hd204ui-identical-hds-but-work-diff...

Samsung's reply:

"Dear customer,

We suggest to try to disable the  Sata controller to avoid any error of your device.

If the problem persist we  suggest to contact Samsung technical support 1-800-726-7864 for further assistance.

Thank you."

CX23882-19 wrote:I have run that tool, and I still get the ATA reset problem when querying SMART when the disk is idle.

Just forward your message to Samsung. It is very quick and easy:
https://contactus.samsung.com/customer/ ... OD_ID=1274

Have Samsung truly fixed SMART or have they implemented some kludge to work around the problem? I have a pair of these HD204UI disks, with the 'fixed' firmware, manufacture date March 2011. Although I am not seeing data corruption (and I have done a lot of copying them full and md5 checksumming bef...

Do PCI express x16 motherboards require mandatory PCIe graphics card to run? I am trying to run Celeron D 3.20 GHz on MS-7187 ver. 3.C motherboard ( http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/t9207.htm ) with only PCI graphics card, as I have no PCIe graphics card. The motherboard is from Medion PC model...

Ridiculous Samsung replies:
http://forum.hddguru.com/verbatim-usb-e ... ml#p124735
http://forum.hddguru.com/verbatim-usb-e ... ml#p124618

Thay claim that applying their patch won't change the firmware. LOL

In all the warranty period. That's how it works in almost all Europe. You only communicate with your reseller, which is both good and bad. In which shop did you purchase your disks? I believe that some of the major British suppliers replace or refund within 28 days, but after that period it is more...

Generally Samsung drives (even the new 2TB Samsung HD204UI) seem to have considerably poorer quality of the surface comparing to the 3 years old (or so) Western Digital WDC WD6400AAKS. If you're using the >500ms results as a proxy for "surface quality", this is very misleading. Among the drives you...

Where I live, you always contact your reseller for warranty problems and they give you a new one when they found out that it's indeed bad. For a hard drive it means I need to wait like 3 days till they test it and after 3 days I get a new drive. Will they do it regardless of time of purchase or onl...

I was afraid that smartmontools would triger the bug on the HD204UI It wouldn't work through USB. You mean smartmontools wouldn't work, or the bug? If HDDScan was able to read firmware number over USB, then perhaps it issued ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command, and they say here: http://sourceforge.net/app...

Samsung customer service is rather not what you would expect:
http://forum.hddguru.com/verbatim-usb-e ... ml#p124618

How do you know that what MHDD reports is comparable between brands? I do not know, but why wouldn't they be comparable? Most of the tests were done using HDDScan, only some using MHDD. I mean it can be something like SMART, which is preatty useless, except for maybe temperature. And how many of th...

Samsung customer service is rather not what you would expect:
http://forum.hddguru.com/verbatim-usb-e ... ml#p124618

Samsung customer service is rather not what you would expect:
http://forum.hddguru.com/verbatim-usb-e ... ml#p124618

If you're going to put in a large testing effort (which would of course be commendable), I recommend you stick to cross-platform text-mode utilities such as smartmontools which would allow everyone to contribute as well as simple automatic parsing and analysis. Taking snapshots and sifting through ...

There have been tested 5 hard drives using different tests (mainly surface access times tests): 1. Samsung HD204UI in Verbatim 2 TB 3.0 USB enclosure. 2. Samsung SP1614N 3. WDC WD6400AAKS 4. WDC WD1600BEVS 5. Seagate ST320410A The tests results are in 149 files of the screenshots of these tests, ava...

There have been tested 5 hard drives using different tests (mainly surface access times tests): 1. Samsung HD204UI in Verbatim 2 TB 3.0 USB enclosure. 2. Samsung SP1614N 3. WDC WD6400AAKS 4. WDC WD1600BEVS 5. Seagate ST320410A The tests results are in 149 files of the screenshots of these tests, ava...

Verbatim USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive 2TB has Samsung HD204UI (reported by operating system). 1. That hard drive needs a firmware update, otherwise data might be lost according to Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386 However, it is not possible to apply Sam...

Verbatim USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive 2TB has Samsung HD204UI (reported by operating system). 1. That hard drive needs a firmware update, otherwise data might be lost according to Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386 However, it is not possible to apply Sam...

As far as I know missalignement will only cause slower HD performance in some situations, nothing else. Not true. It can give frequent system stalling, or even BSODs. It can slow down a computer so much that not even the Windows installer could finish. So why does it cause such troubles only with A...

zsero wrote:Acronis ISO is safe to use, it's Paragon which causes problems.

Someone here:
http://forum.hddguru.com/sector-formatt ... ml#p123648
complains about both, even more about Acronis.

Tresstump wrote:Sorry should have said but I have a dedicated hardware card, Highpoint RR1740. Will I run into any issues with misalignment with this?

As far as I know missalignement will only cause slower HD performance in some situations, nothing else.

Has anyone had any experience with using these in raid with a pre Vista environment (XP/W2K3)? I'm looking at setting these up in a raid 5 in a W2K3 server and would like to know what I need to do to get them formatted correctly. If anyone could shed some light that would be great! You can partitio...

When my Samsung Spinpoint F4 HD204UI/Z4 2TB is turned off there is a weird relatively loud 'knocking' sound of slowing down spinning plates. Here is the record of the sound (please, turn the volume up to hear it): http://www.avforums.com/forums/attachments/pvrs-vcrs/223015d1296422657-humax-hdr-fox-t...

I just got my new HD204UI/CEC.It turns out the disk quality is not so good compare to my other poccessions. Could you please elaborate, why it is not so good, and to which other drives you are comparing it. What is the software a sreenshot you copied, MHDD? Are screenshots of tests of your other dr...

If you like waiting for hours instead of creating a good one with one click, then yes, in theory it would work. Booting your computer with a Win 7 recovery cd isn't that hard at all. So you claim that Win 7 recovery cd should be able to format a new HD? And what about the case when someone formatte...