Hard drive compatibility.

[Eric]

Looks like a regular SATA drive, and Samsung is a fairly common brand...
Unless you have issues to begin with with your motherboard's SATA
controller, should be fine.

Having said that, have you researched the SMART error? May not be as
bad as it sounds.
[Nevermind that, found that answer too:]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes

I always find it a pity that its cheaper to get a new HDD than the
software that can fix them...

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Vaughn Male <keino_9 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at the SMART Data for my hard drive and it told me that I have
> a "Reallocated Sector Count". Since this has the word WARNING in big red
> letters next to it I decided to purchase a new HD.
>
> So I've been looking at Hard Drives and I found one I really like on New
> Egg. I was just wondering if I might encounter compatibility problems with
> 10.10 ( I primarily use Ubuntu Studio).
>
> The HD in question:
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-152-181&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=3#scrollFullInfo
>
> Thank you for reading.
>    -Vaughn
>
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