Hi, I've been considering buying a larger storage HDD for a while and now I see the Samsung Spinpoint F4 HD204UI for 90$CAD+15% cashback using PayPal and free shipping which seems like a good deal to me.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bits and I already have an OCZ Solid 2 Series OCZSSD2 (60GB) as my OS drive, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS (500GB) as my Software/Storage drive and an old Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YD (250GB) I use mostly for temporary work (DVD RIP, unzipping large archives before burning them to disks, backups, ...).
I know it uses the new 4K sectors and I have to flash the FW with the latest one from Samsung to prevent corruption, but beside that, would anyone see any reason NOT to buy this drive? Would the 4K thing cause any issue with Windows 7, is there anything special I should do or be worried about?
Thanks all for any comment/suggestions.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bits and I already have an OCZ Solid 2 Series OCZSSD2 (60GB) as my OS drive, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS (500GB) as my Software/Storage drive and an old Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YD (250GB) I use mostly for temporary work (DVD RIP, unzipping large archives before burning them to disks, backups, ...).
I know it uses the new 4K sectors and I have to flash the FW with the latest one from Samsung to prevent corruption, but beside that, would anyone see any reason NOT to buy this drive? Would the 4K thing cause any issue with Windows 7, is there anything special I should do or be worried about?
Thanks all for any comment/suggestions.