I thought that the EADS was the replacement for the EARS?  My local Micro Center was out of the 1.5 EADS so they gave me EARS for the same price $64 bucks.  They also told me that they will no longer be carrying the EADS.  I then went to NewEgg and they show it as deactivated also.

 

I thought it was no big deal because I can jumper the EARS and ultimately be the same drive with 64mb cache.  It doesnt seem so   My EADS's cleared much faster and they also formatted faster.  I havent moved any data over yet to know if the EARS is truly slower or not; I hope they are not because I cant get any more EADS'.  I would have just rather had all EADS' because they just work and you dont have to pull the jumper crap.

 

Odd!

Nope. The EARS are the EADS replacement.

 

If you're using EARS if you don't want to bother with a jumper install then you should opt for unRAID 4.7 and select MBR 4K Aligned.

I thought it was no big deal because I can jumper the EARS and ultimately be the same drive with 64mb cache.  It doesnt seem so   My EADS's cleared much faster and they also formatted faster. 

 

You may have got a marginal drive, see my post:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10419.msg99065#msg99065

 

I've had a number of the 2TB EARS drives and they were always as fast as the older 1.5TB and 1TB EADS drives, but this one EARS drive was taking twice as long to pre-clear, I took it back to the store (MemoryExpress) and they gave me a new one on the spot.

 

Regards,

 

Stephen