Setting up a Western Digital EARS (4kb) HDD

[Antobello]

My EADS 2TB died after two weeks, So now i must replace it.

Can someone confirm that now i can buy an EARS model and I DON'T NEED to format before in a pc and i can insert it directly in my a210 without the problem for the alignement ?

[BanditRider]

If you're going to do the Fresh Apps install then it will be properly aligned.

[Benna]

I found the reason why i got stuttering imagew looking at bluray iso files on my 2tb eras model. I did format the disk enabling file compression.i did an uncompress command via cmd,the command worked for nearly 50 hours to uncompress all the data and after that i can now watch ALL my movies in any format They Are )

[Galmar]

(12-28-2010 06:50 PM)tuborgz Wrote:  It seems that new A200 firmware fixed this problem (you can make advanced format on 4kb drives). Anyone tried?

hi,
I have read release notes for A-200 ( 17 December 2010 02-04-101208-21-POP-411-000 ) and there is no information related with 4k problem. Anyway do you have any information about update FW of A-110 related with 4k sectors HDD issue? I think that it is no problem to update kernel of linux for A-110 because all new disks since 2011 have 4k sectors and all users which have A-110 and will buy new disk have problem.

I hope that producer of A-110 will made this update.

[ch1n4]

Hi everyone,

One question. When i bought and installed my WD EARS 2TB I didn't know about the 4 KB alignment. I inserted it into my A-210 and made a fresh install of the nmt apps including format of the drive. Was there an option to choose the format of the 4kb alignment, or should it happened automatically, because i can't remeber and I am really worried now
On the other hand, if i was able to make a fresh installation of the NMT-Tools, is this a prove that the hard drive is aligned correcly? How can i check this.

Would be glad if someone could help me with this.

kind regards.