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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...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    trying the dvd again, maybe if the partition is active it will find the windows installation... i'm SERIOUSLY considering a Mac now... :(
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    repair computer didn't help because it wouldn't recognise the windows installation!!!! :( I plugged the F4 and the SSD, booted into the F4, went into diskpart, made the SSD partition active (when did it become non-active????????), unplugged the F4, tried booting with the SSD, now it says...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    AARGGHHHH I can't even boot with the SSD any more. I get the message: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I tried all sata cables and all sata ports and all modes (AHCI/IDE). I absolutely need my existing windows installation on that drive, and all this messing around has...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    ran benchm again. min 1.9 (!), max 136.6 MB/s, average 65.5 access time 19.5 ms burst rate 188.4 MB/s something doesn't work properly... right now, all power saving features (C&Q etc.) are off from BIOS and Windows, it's a fresh install of Win 7 64bit on a 45GB partition created from scratch on...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    I updated the driver to the AHCI one and now I get 73MB/s average speed (still lower than what I see in other people reports and still extremely volatile reading, ranging from 25 to 133 MB/s with the same spiky graph as before), but much better burst rate (186MB/s) and seek time 18.8ms (so-so, I...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    The drivers you point at your last screenshot are for win XP 64bit. Here's what I see for win 7.
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    installing windows (64bit) now. Question: if (hopefully) this works and it was the bios setting (AHCI mode), then how can I change that setting without having to reinstall windows from scratch? When I tried changing it in the past, the system wouldn't boot (no matter what combination I tried...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    This mobo has 3 different sata controllers i think. In BIOS it lets you choose different mode per port. Here's a "screenshot": Let me try what you suggest now...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Confirmed. No jumpers at all. This might be the reason. It is IDE mode :( I didn't have time today to play a lot with it, but I tried setting it in AHCI mode, but the PC wouldn't boot; error message saying bootmgr not found or something like that. I even tried setting just the boot (the SSD)...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    it seems that volume 1 is the win7 install DVD. When I do list volume, that's what i see: That's after I did diskpart again, this time with the 32bit win7 disk. Btw, it's way past my bed time, so next step is going to be tomorrow. If you have any new ideas, please advise.
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    So, diskpart again? Do you think it might be Win7 64bit that fails to format it properly? Shld I try diskpart with the 32bit version?
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    All done up to the flag part. I click "manage flags" from the right click menu of the new partition; there's no "active" option, the options are: boot diag hidden lba lvm palo prep raid all unchecked. Should I select "boot"?
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    here you are also confirming that it's the only drive in the system right now with a fresh install of win 7 pro 64bit, all other drives are not connected.
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    so now what? gparted? try to move the partition leaving 1MiB before it?
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    finished installation, downloaded benchmark. Exactly the same... :( edit: actually not even the same, much worse. average read 18.3MB/s! (min 1, max 89.7), access time 35ms! burst rate 41.5MB/s!!!
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    installing windows now, but can you tell me what do you expect to change from that? when i did the diskpart thing the first time and booted normally, the benchmark was the same crap as the first time. As far as I know, installing windows won't actually change anything in terms of partitions etc...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    ok doing it now. just did the diskpart thing and going to install win7 now.
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    OK, I misunderstood. What I did is reconnected all my other drives and booted as normal (from the SSD). Now I'm running the Gparted and the 1MB empty space was after the 1.82TB big partition. So I selected the big partition, chose 1MiB free space preceding, 0MiB free space following, and align...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Did the diskpart repair thing. I assume you mean reboot and run windows (rather than install it) after that. Ran the benchmark, no improvement. Booting the Gparted live cd now to try the align thing. Will keep you posted.
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Forgive my ignorance, but where exactly do I perform this custom install with the two info windows? The only options I have managed to find in Windows 7 are for NTFS or FAT32 and allocation (cluster) size ranging from 512 bytes to 64KB (only one setting, no separate left or right).
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    CPU usage is high because it's a humble sempron 140 and i have all power saving settings on (cool & quiet plus a gigabyte utility) so it's utilized a lot on demand but the system still feels snappy. I can try playing around with the settings but I don't think that's a problem per se. For...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    As I said, the drive is now empty and I can partition and format it any way I need to, without worrying about data loss. What should I do to have it properly work?
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    Thanks for the response. My MB is the gigabyte 770ta-ud3, fairly new I think so it should support everything properly (but then again I would think installing a hard drive wouldn't be a problem either...) I used Win7 to format the drive and the first thing it asked me was what type of partition...
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    Formatting a new Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb 4k sector drive Win7 x64?

    I just got this drive and installed it in a Win7 64bit PC. It seems there's something wrong. I tried both MBR and GPT, and 4k and 512bytes formatting, but the result of the read benchmark looks like this: For comparison's sake, the old F3 1.5 TB drive benchmark below: Any clues?