I was going to try dumping the flash chip on both versions of the drive and do a comparison, but I'm not sure if these feature settings are stored in there, or maybe in a special protected area of the drive itself. I even tried flashing with the bare drive firmware, and no change. I checked the drive with Samsung's ESTOOL 3.01v, and I couldn't change any of these settings to match the bare drive OEM version of the HD204UI. I had 90+ stop/start cycles in SMART data after only a few hours of use.Īlso, the SATA ATA spec commands of NCQ and Power Management are disabled on the Story version (HD204UI/VP4). Changing the AAM setting will have no effect. This is done on the drive itself, not on the USB bridge adapter inside the Samsung Story. The HD204UI/VP4 (Story version) is configured to spin down crazy often. Just know that the HD204UI/VP4 inside the Samsung Story HX-DU020EB/A62 is a specially customized version of the HD204UI, quite different from the bare drive OEM version. but I'm sure they'll just get a slap on the wrist. Other Thoughts: I wouldn't be surprised if some years down the road there is a federal investigation into price/warranty collusion between Seagate and WD, just like there was one for RAM manufacturers. Seagate's reliability is notoriously bad and they have unfortunately shut down Samsung's superior manufacturing facilities while simply slapping Samsung badges on Seagate drives produced in Seagate facilities. Hopefully the market will force prices down in the next few months.ģ. High prices and short warranties are nothing to be excited about. The same lack of competition is driving warranty lengths down. With only two manufacturers on the market now, Seagate (Samsung) and Western Digital (Hitachi) they do not have any incentive to lower prices, and now that they know the public is willing to pay much higher prices for HDDs expect the high prices to stay. The primary reason prices have not come down is not because of the flood effects, but because of hard drive manufacturer consolidation.
It happened 7 months ago.there has been plenty of time to get manufacturing capacity back online.
The flood excuse is getting a bit long in the tooth. Similar discounts were offered on Hitachi drives as well.Ĭons: 2. Newegg several times offered a $10 discount and another $10 rebate making this drive $60. Regular pre-flood pricing for 2TB was $80ish.
$100ish is not a bad price considering how much higher HDD prices have been since the flooding hit manufacturing facilities, but this price is still a 67% premium over pre-flood prices. In order to determine your hard disk board number, the best way is to use a screwdriver to open the hard disk, find the circuit board of the hard disk to determine the board number, the board number of the hard disk is printed on the circuit board, some are on the front side and some are on the back side.Pros: 1. Samsung PCB Swapping: Samsung PCB Replacement But first you need to know that the same model of hard drive (such as ST2000DL004 Samsung hard drive, as shown below) may use one or more boards with different board numbers, we will list the possible boards of the Samsung ST2000DL004 hard drives bellow: Samsung ST2000DL004 Hard Disk Drives By replacing the board, the hard disk can be restored, so we can recover data on it. We know that replacing the circuit board is a very simple way to repair the hard drive’s board fault. Many customers write to HDDZONE to find a suitable replacement circuit board for this type of hard drive. ST2000DL004 is a common model of Samsung hard drives.
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