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I have this same Rosewill docking station.  The quality is surprisingly good.

Is the F4 the same as the old EcoGreen series?

Yes it is the EcoGreen series.

http://www.samsung.com/us/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=1183

Thanks.

Outstanding .. I was just looking at 2TB drives yesterday .. but I am partial to Samsung.

Just picked up two!

Don't those f4s have the advance format like the Western Digital EARS?

Yes.

Probably discussed here many times, but I'm just starting with unraid.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/02/02/all-new-hard-drives-will-be-4k-advanced-for/1

To quote Seagate PR directly: "International Disk Drive Materials and Equipment Association (IDEMA) have agreed that beginning January 1, 2011 all new product releases with SATA interfaces will support Advanced Formatted media."

So do you have to use jumpers with these drives like the EARS?

It depends on how they handle it. The Seagate 3TB external drive uses advanced format layout, however they do their own translation at the interface layer to have it look and function like the old style drive. I might have misunderstood what they said, but that's what I gathered from the Anandtech review.

So .. if they need jumpers, which pins?

Does anyone know for sure if jumpers are needed?

I just received mine from Newegg.  Any consensus on if these drives are ok in unRAID?

There seems to be 2 sets of jumpers, but not sure what they are for.  The manual shows some jumper settings for master/slave settings in PATA setup, so I don't think that applies.  Is there a way to know if it is working properly during the preclear script?