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Alex Hunsley
My 6month old Maxtor SATA HD (200gb) was overheating, so I took it back
to the shop and a replacement was taking time to come in, and they
offered to sell me a Maxtor 250gb SATA disk for the price difference. I
opted to do this, but have discovered that the drive doesn't support
SMART! The type is MaxLine Plus II 250gb. Maxtor's web page about
nearline drives is here:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/enterprise_applications/maxline_plus_ii/
it seems to suggest that the drive I've got isn't for desktop, and is
suitable for backup and network storage. So, should I be using this
drive for a desktop machine? I'm annoyed that it doesn't support SMART
technology because this means I can't monitor the HD temperature, which
was what went wrong before!
Are there any big differences between near-line and desktop disks?
Is it just a labelling thing, apart from the lack of SMART?
cheerio
alex
to the shop and a replacement was taking time to come in, and they
offered to sell me a Maxtor 250gb SATA disk for the price difference. I
opted to do this, but have discovered that the drive doesn't support
SMART! The type is MaxLine Plus II 250gb. Maxtor's web page about
nearline drives is here:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/enterprise_applications/maxline_plus_ii/
it seems to suggest that the drive I've got isn't for desktop, and is
suitable for backup and network storage. So, should I be using this
drive for a desktop machine? I'm annoyed that it doesn't support SMART
technology because this means I can't monitor the HD temperature, which
was what went wrong before!
Are there any big differences between near-line and desktop disks?
Is it just a labelling thing, apart from the lack of SMART?
cheerio
alex