Two new Raptors slightly different

[exdeath]

74355 MB and 74354 MB?

Both drives have the same firmware revision.

Just want to know if anyone else has ever seen anything like this or not? Will it hurt a RAID 0 setup at all?

This isnt the windows reported space, the SATA controller itself also shows the model numbers for each drive and shows a 1 MB difference on POST.

 

[MichaelD]

If the firmware is indentical on the two, that is the best case scenario you could ask for. Go for it.

 

[yankeesfan]

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[zephyrprime]

I know that such things were common long ago for hard drives because they would always have some defects on their surface. I don't know if that's still a common thing but it seems like you're run into the phenomena.

 

[DaFinn]

Heh, my HT P4 shows 1Mhz differens between the procs... It still works ok though.

 

[Yanagi]

just try if it works. 1mb isnt much and if it proves to be unstable, unusable then RMA the one with the missing mb

 

[jpeyton]

jesus christ

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's not all that unusual. One reason why you should use a utility to "firmware clip" the capacity of drives intended to be used in a RAID setup to some even number of LBA sectors, to compensate for future drives being added to the RAID that might have slightly different (and therefore incompatible) max LBA sector counts.

 

[exdeath]

Could care less about 1 MB, just wanted to know if this is common. My Cheetah X15s are 100% identical down to the last byte, I've never ordered 2 hard drives before and had them be slightly different, so I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this.

 

[JBT]

I was looking over at storagereview.com and they have been looking doing a study on the Raptors and they are changing quite a bit. The newer and newer the drive the slower they seem to be getting. Not sure what its all about but might want to stay tuned and see how it plays out.

 

[3chordcharlie]

If you raid them, it'll just use the capacity of the smallest drive for all drives anyway; shouldn't cause a problem.