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    What do you think Nvidia will do about the 3GB VRAM requirement for 4K Netflix and edge?

    Has there been an update on this? A software solution? I want 4k for my HTPC and the Nvidia 1030 looks like the perfect card for the job except for that Netflix requirement.
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Hello all, just coming back to say that I decided to give the Samsung another go and bought another one, this time from amazon. I am glad to report that this was not a Z4 model, and the benchmark ran without any of the hiccups of the previous one. Here is the screenshot: As I was in a hurry to...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    I sent an email, so I'll have the response in writing. Let's see. The question now is should I try again? (buying it from another shop?)
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Is there a link with hard evidence that Z4 is a refurb? Here's the retailer's reply to my email asking about it:
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    I skimmed the posting and didn't realize it at first. I realize it now and I'm furious for wasting all this time because of a bad drive that was sold as new when it was in fact refurb. In the mean time the retailer sent the following message: [...] Dear ..., Following extensive tests by...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Actually, that's exactly what I first did. Put the drive in, used default Win7 settings to do a FULL format (took several hours), then copied A LOT of data in it with no error, and then noticed that when I selected all files on the drive and right-clicked and selected properties, it took longer...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    When I first installed it and formatted it, I did the long full format, not quick. It took several hours (~7-8). So, wouldn't that had revealed any bad sectors? Also, afterwards I copied 1.3TB of data on the drive without any problem. So I doubt bad sectors are to blame, esp because the spikes...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    I believe HD Tune tests the drive itself irrespective of partitioning etc. so defrag wouldn't make any difference. Unless you refer to C: as the SSD in my normal installation, but then SSD has practically zero access time and is idle during the test anyway, so can't see how it helps. I did...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Cutting my losses and returning the drive. I may try again if the technology graduates from beta stage or get an old and trusted 1.5TB drive (which is at the sweet spot in terms of GB/£ anyway). Thanks for your help bankster and hope your drives turn out good. If you find any additional...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    You lucky bastards over there. I paid £73 (i.e. $117) :p Thanks. I'm gonna try it. I understand. I was just making the point that the system could easily cope with the data throughput. In any case, I tried again the other mechanical drives (F1 and F3) and they are as before, i.e. faster than...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    But then how come it can handle the SSD? Its performance remains high and in fact the windows experience index went up to 7.7 (vs 7.3 with IDE) - maybe a coincidence as I had only ran it once before, so maybe 7.3 was lower than normal, but at the very least it proves that the system can handle...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Heheh, I've been in the army actually - two years... anyway, yes, let's try again tomorrow. I just ran hd tune again from the normal win installation (booting from the SSD, all drives in AHCI mode now with latest drivers) and it's WORSE than before (avg transfer rate <50) !!!
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    ok, fixed it. Apparently, if it doesn't find the windows installation, you can click "install now", let it start the installation until it realizes there IS actually a new installation, you then cancel it, and it goes back to the first screen, and this time if you hit repair, it DOES show the...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Partition situation on the SSD is only one primary partition, with everything but 2MB of space. Now Active. As for the mode changing, I want to set it to AHCI, but first I need to be able to boot into my SSD and add the drivers etc., otherwise it doesn't boot at all. That's why I reverted...