On 21 October 2013 11:25, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
Firmware appears to be different.
I noticed that but they look fundamentally different, as if they're different drives by different manufacturers rebadged with the same model number? The firmware references don't even look similar.
They were both bought in the same order from the same supplier at the same time so I'd have expected them to be close. Having two different disks suits me (a flaw in the design of one of them is less likely to affect the other, otherwise resulting is failures of both drives at around the same time). One doesn't seem to have the same level of SMART capability enabled though - not sure if I just need to enable something (SMART itself is enabled), it suggests it can't run self-tests which would be a bit odd?