Thanks for all of your help here folks. New drive is on its way...should arrive by Saturday. By the way, I'm cloning a 1Tb WD "blue" with an 8Mb cache to a 1Tb WD "black" with a 64Mb cache.

Somewhere I heard, rightly or wrongly, that drives over 1Tb have multiple platters and this can cause slower seek times, generate higher heat loads, and a higher failure rate due to the mechanics. Any truth to that?

Thanks for your help on this.

Jeff


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