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L69377-001 HP HDD Hard Disk Drive 500Gb Brand New Genuine HP Original UK SellerBuy With ConfidenceUK Seller, with 99% Next Day Delivery. Or you can save on cost with RM48 RETURNS ACCEPTED for any reason . Alta buys from premium sources of maintained corporate IT hardware, but what really enables our miniscule failure rate is the fact we test everything upon receipt, and again on the way out the door.
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きんぐ
This is a bare drive with only whatever packaging is used by the seller. >2TB drives might work with patched versions of Vista, but I don't know.
Marco
95. It most definitely responds to spin-down commands, I've had the OS configured to spin it down after 30 minutes of inactivity and this has worked fine. I don't know how much warmer it would get without the fan, but every case will be different. It only became visible if I used HDAT2 to reduce the drive's reported size to 2TB.
Die
However, I do not have a quiet PC. Limited support for GPT was added for 64-bit WinXP, but not for a system drive, only for a data disk. Use that option while creating the partitions, and you'll be good.
Nik
This 3TB DT01ACA300 is the slower but much quieter drive - it's inline with most modern consumer 7200rpm drives. It should still respond to head parking commands from the OS, as any hard drive has been capable of doing since the days of MS-DOS. All of mine (so far) have come well padded in a sturdy cardboard box. It's only an issue for mounting it directly on the system.
Harmonyzer
That was during the very long 'badblocks' test with a fan blowing through the drive cage. This is a 7200rpm drive. It's one of the cheapest 3 TB drives on the market, and does its job well. Recently I've moved it to file storage, and another drive has replaced it for parity.
Amazon Customer
If you are only seeing something like 700GB of space on this drive, it is because you are using an outdated MBR partitioning tool which will not work properly with drives of this size. [Updated 5/28/2015]This review is for the 3TB model, DT01ACA300.
Captain Cretin
Please research this before buying. On a scale, it weighed 1. I don't see a clearly labeled firmware version on the label of my drive, but it does say "DRIVE REV AAA AA00 / BB0".
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