Difference between new and old drive: Does anyone know the difference between the SE-S084B/RSBN and the SE-S084C/RSBN samsung drives?
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The C drive has a round eject button. It looks like the only other difference, according to the Samsung website, is the US-RW write speed is limited to 16x on the C drive. The B drive can burn US-RW at 24x.
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Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB. The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.
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I believe the WH16NS40 is just the bare drive, and the BH16NS40 is the retail model including software.
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No. New drives have to be equal to or larger than the largest installed drive.
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It should function just as the internal one with the same software, either native Win7 or whatever software you use to read/write. Just select the new drive from Explorer.
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I didnt use that exact samsung drive but idid use a samsung msata ssd and it worked fine..once its msata it should work
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Every drive I have ever purchased has been new - and worked great. If I got one that was old or used I would have certainly returned it - and if you are indeed buying new and got used, I would expect that you could contact Amazon for a return.
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My first drive I ordered is 7K1000.B but the new one I just recently got is 7K1000.C.
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When buying a new drive, you need to not only look at size but speed and other factors like data buffering. You'll need to do a comparison of the drive you're replacing with this one. I've been using this drive for about four months now and it works as good as or better than the factory installed one. I bought it mostly for the additional space and I'll have enough space to last the life of this laptop.
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I would compare this drive to the current one you own. If the size or type of connector is different then that it's where your problem lies
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All the drives I received are model WD20EARS-00MVWB0. So far they work great. I am running them in SansDigital TR8M(-B)P in JBOD configuration. So far zero problems, I will probably pickup 5 more to get a total of 16TB.
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I have the Samsung 840 in another computer. I see no difference,Both are very good.
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Another difference is that the older model doesn't allow file management, you cannot copy, move, or delete files between usb drives. I don't know if that has changed with the firmware update, but if anyone can answer that here, I would appreciate it.Another question I have is does the Live natively decode DTS?
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I've would suggest not installing a previously used drive (assuming you have an old 5400rpm drive lying around, hence your question). When I installed a used drive (not formatted) it crashed the system. It only seems to like new, formatted drives. Mine does happen to be a 7200rpm WD
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One of the Seagate forum moderators stated that it's the same drive: http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Momentus-XT-Momentus-and/What-is-the-difference-between-the-Momentus-xt-500-G-models/m-p/85644
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The red ones are the cheap ones right? Because the cheaper versions are definitely the ones I got. I thought about getting the base model (without the hard drives), but just figured I could upgrade later, as they begin to fail. One at a time hopefully. I love my Synology Disk Station!
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All SSD are backwards compatible. The only difference is in the SATA speeds. There is SATA I, SATA II and SATA III the respective transfer speeds are SATA I 1.5Gb / sec; SATA II 3.0 Gb/sec; and SATA III 6.0 Gb/sec. The Samsung 840 series are SATA III Capable. My mother board connection is a SATA I and I upgraded to this SSD without problems. You should have no issues either. The plus on this too is even though you will likely lose storage space since your computer was installed with a 1TB HD even if your old HD was 7200 or 10,000 RPM's the read/write capability does not compare to the SSD. SSD has no internal mechanical pieces so they run incredibly fast and are most definitely an upgrade. You can expect to see your computer boot in about 5-10 seconds and program load times will be significantly reduced.